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"These coolies drank water from a jeerah sunk in the border of a pool by
the roadside."
" Lucknadown-48th mile. There were 70 village coolies working here.
They were dispersed by the Tehseeldar on the 20th April; they had no cholera;
22 returned on 20th June and a few more since ; they now number 40."
"Poorwa-44th mile. Two gangs of 96 Purdesee coolies employed here
within 200 yards of road breaking basalt One man was attacked on the 12th May
and died the same day in about five hours. The following day two men fell sick
and recovered. No more sickness. They were moved to another locality about
a mile oft" on the 13th. They drank the water from temporary jeerahs in the
bed of a nullah."
"Shere-42nd mile. There were 80 village coolies employed here breaking
limestone about a mile west of the road. They dispersed on the 22nd April by
order of the Tehseeldar. On the 24th June 20 men returned, and by 1st July
the number at work had risen to 100."
"Goorwala-39th mile. At this place 60 Purdesee coolies and 70 village
coolies were hutted, and employed breaking stone about 75 yards west of the
road. 60 village coolies dispersed to their houses on the 1st May, the remaining
70 remained on the ground and kept through the season in excellent health.
Not a case occurred among them. They were hutted on the blacksoil overlying
the basalt, which they were quarrying and breaking. They drank the water of
a cutcha well which they dug in low ground about 3/4 mile off. No trees near
their huts except one large mohwa. They used to go occasionally to Doomah
to market and to no other place."
" Burbuttee nullah-33rd mile. There was one gang of 30 Purdesees
and one of 65 village coolies. These 65 dispersed to their houses in the neigh-
bourhood on the 28th April. Of the 30 Purdesees, 2 fell sick on the 15th May,
1 died, and the other recovered. They used to drink the water of the Burbuttee
nullah."
31. Hoolkee valley. The Hoolkee valley is very like the Gunneshgunj
valley, but less extensive; it is also less fertile, the calcarious clay being only here
and there thickly covered with blacksoil; it is drained by the Teryah nullah
which, entering the valley between the hills at its south-western extremity,
courses though it in a north-easterly direction, joins the Themur river a little
below the village of Kuladehee; it flows through steep clay banks, and has a
rocky basaltic bottom. In the hot weather the water is contained in long
stagnant pools, with a very small stream trickling over the basaltic rock
between these. It differs, however, from Mooteyah, it having its bank shaded with
trees. The gangs in this valley were chiefly employed in digging kunkur which
is abundant in the clay of which the bottom of the valley is formed ; but the gang
first attacked was employed in quarrying metal from "the basaltic bed of the
nullah. The nullah is the only source of water-supply for the coolies and the
village of Kuladehee.
Mr O'Donnell states;-"In this valley there were in all 550 coolies at
work, 275 Purdesees and 275 village coolies."
"23rd mile.-Chek Cowree with 150 village coolies was breaking basalt.
Before the disease appeared in his gangs he dispersed thorn on the 2nd May.
None have since returned."
"17th and 18th mile.-Khuneyasing with 180 village coolies, and Beharee
with 45 Purdesees, were employed digging kunkur near the road. The 180