Enclosures of letter to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, No.11, dated 15 January 1875: Nos. 3 to 45 of Abstract of Contents, from the Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India, Fort William [‎88v] (76/100)

Appendix B.
Chotoo bin Shaik Boodhoo , Mussulman, age 14, inhabitant of Camp Baroda, in the
service of Mr. Boevey's ayah, and formerly living in the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. compound,
states:—
A few days before the Dewalee festival I accompanied the ayah one night
to the bazar, where her husband was waitiug with a bullock shigram, into which
we got, and drove to the Maharaja's Hawalee* in
the city, where we were met by one Salim, an
Arab servant of His Highness the Gaekwar. We got out of the shigram at the
" Hawalee," and the ayah and Sarlim went upstairs to meet the Gaekwar.
The driver and I went to sleep. After some time the ayah and Sarlim return
ed and woke us up, and I and the ayah drove back and got out of the shigram
at the Camp Bazar, where we had first taken it, and we walked home. I know
Salim very well: he used often to come and drink water and smoke at the
ayah's house when she lived in the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. compound.
Taken before me this 17th day of December 1874.
P. H. S OUTER,
Commissioner of Police, Homhay.
Appendix C.
Ameena , wife of Sheik Abdoolla Kiral , age about 40, and ayah to Mrs. Roevey,
states :—
At the time of the meeting of the Baroda Commission I was persuaded
much against my will by Faizoo liamzan. Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Chobdar, to visit the
Maharaja Gaekwar. I went to see him three times altogether. On the first
occasion I was taken to the Maharaja by Faizoo, and that was when the Inquiry
Commission was sitting. Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. Salim met us at the " Hawalee," and we all
three proceeded before the Maharaja together. We went up three flights of
stairs to where the Maharaja was sitting. He sp o ke to me personally, and
begged of me to intercede with my madam, Mrs Phayre, in order that she
might use her influence with the Resident in his the Maharaja's behalf. I
made no promises. After being about half an hour with the Maharaja I left.
Paizoo went to his house in the city, Salim remained at the palace, and I came
home by myself in a bullock shigram.
I visited the Maharaja twice again : the second time was after my return
from Bombay and Nowsaree, when, on Mrs. Phayre's departure for England,
I accepted service with her daughter, Mrs. Boevey, wife of the Assistant
Resident. It must have been about a month after my return to Baroda that
I visited the Maharaja on the second occasion. I was then persuaded by the
Maharaja's Arab servant, Salim, to go to the Gaekwar, and I was taken by
the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Naik, named Kurreem. The Maharaja and Salim talked to
me about "jadoo" (sorcery), but I remarked that Europeans could not be
affected or influenced by such means. My interview with the Gaekwar lasted
about half an hour, and I then returned home in the shigram with Kurreem.
On this day I received no money, but two or three days after Kurreem Naik
called at my house and gave me Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 100, statipg that Yeshwantrow Yeola
had given Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 200, of which Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 100 was for him, which he had kept,
and the other Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 100 for me.
The third time I visited the Maharaja was during the Ramzan. I was
then pressed to go by Salim, who fixed the day and time, and I went in
company with my servant boy, named Chootoo. My husband, Abdoola, procured
a shigram, and Salim met me at the Hawalee and took me before the Raja King .
On this occasion the Maharaja spoke to me with reference to the birth of
Luxmee Bhai's child, and inquired whether the sahib and madam had been
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