A History of the Mahrattas v1.c16.70

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carriers. [The *jāsūs* on this occasion is said to have been Bāhirjī Nāyak. (*Sabhāsad Bakhar* (Mānkar), 96.) See previous reference to him on page 178. It is possible that Bāhirjī was a Rāmosī, the members of that tribe being expert trackers and spies. During the rule of the Pēshwā, about 1740, a certain Rāmosī, Bāhirjī Nāyak of Mālsiras, Sholāpur District, was selected with four other Rāmosī Nāyaks to act as watchman of Poona city, which was suffering at the time from an epidemic of robberies. (*Mackintosh's Account of the Ramoossies*, Bombay (1833), p. 58.)]