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Updated: May 16, 2025
The merchants residing at Surat, finding themselves exposed to numberless dangers, and every species of oppression, by the sidee who commanded the castle on one hand, by the governor of the city on the other, and by the Mahrattas, who had a claim to a certain share of the revenue, made application to the English presidency at Bombay, desiring they would equip an expedition for taking possession of the castle and tanka, and settle the government of the city upon Pharass Cawn, who had been naib or deputy-governor under Meah Atchund, and regulated the police to the satisfaction of the inhabitants.
This was Kundoo's grievance, and he spoke in the name of all the five men who, with Janki Meah, composed the gang in Number Seven gallery of Twenty-Two. Janki Meah had been blind for the thirty years during which he had served the Jimahari Collieries with pick and crowbar.
'If the water has reached the smoking-gallery, said Janki, 'all the Company's pumps can do nothing for three days. 'It is very hot, moaned Jasoda, the Meah basket-woman. 'There is a very bad air here because of the lamps. 'Put them out, said Janki; 'why do you want lamps? The lamps were put out and the company sat still in the utter dark.
Janki Meah glared at Kundoo, but, as Janki Meah was blind, Kundoo was not impressed. He had come to argue with Janki Meah, and, if chance favored, to make love to the old man's pretty young wife. This was Kundoo's grievance, and he spoke in the name of all the five men who, with Janki Meah, composed the gang in Number Seven gallery of Twenty-Two.
Then we went home; and after the evening meal the joyfulness began, for they did not wait till the next day, as we do in England. "As only one room was lighted up by each family to economize light and for other reasons there are no curtains or blinds to draw down we were able to go through all Meah Sheorim and stop a minute or two at every lighted window and watch the goings on.
The pony would come to his side, and Janki Meah would clamber on to its back and be taken at once to the plot of land which he, like the other miners, received from the Jimahari Company.
"Water has come into Twenty-Two. God knows where are the others. I have brought these men from Tibu's gallery in our cutting; making connection through the north side of the gallery. Take us to the cage," said Janki Meah. At the pit-bank of Twenty-Two, some thousand people clamored and wept and shouted. One hundred men one thousand men had been drowned in the cutting.
"If the water has reached the smoking-gallery," said Janki, "all the Company's pumps can do nothing for three days." "It is very hot," moaned Jasoda, the Meah basket-woman. "There is a very bad air here because of the lamps." "Put them out," said Janki; "why do you want lamps?" The lamps were put out and the company sat still in the utter dark.
He loaded her with ornaments not brass or pewter, but real silver ones and she rewarded him by flirting outrageously with Kundoo of Number Seven gallery gang. Kundoo was really the gang-head, but Janki Meah insisted upon all the work being entered in his own name, and chose the men that he worked with.
He is a railroad man, and a right good one at that. Faveh me with the name again; Winteh, did you say?" "No; Winton Mr. John Winton." "D-d-devil!" gritted the Rajah, smiting the hand-rail with his clenched fist. "Hah! I beg your pahdon, my deahs a meah slip of the tongue."
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