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 POORUN SING. (132)

OORUN SING is a Hindoo inhabitant of Godlia, district Allyghur, where the tribe to which he belongs has lived for hundreds of years. They are landowners, and support themselves by the proceeds of their property. They sometimes travel on business, and their pursuits and dispositions are now generally peaceful, but they are reckoned a proud and warlike race. They are Hindoo Rajpoots of the Bais sect (see No. 78), and worshippers of the Ganges. They are also to be found in other parts of India. Their food is game, mutton, fowl, bread, rice, vegetables, milk, sweetmeats, &c., but not beef; and members of this family are said to have lived to the age of 100 years and upwards. Poorun Sing is forty-two years of age, he stands five feet six inches high, his complexion is tolerably fair, and his eyes and hair black.