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each wing is sub-divided into 2 blocks of 8 pendalls, which are built in paral
-lel rows, there being 4 rows of 2 pendalls in each block. The Native officers'
houses are on either flank. The houses of the 8 subedars of the regiment
being at the head of each company, whilst the houses of the 8 jemadars are
situated on the other flank, so that each line consists of a subedar's house, 4
pendalls (these being divided by the broad central road) and the jemadar's
house.
4. The lines were originally built by the 10th Regiment, and are not of
good design or construction. The pendalls consist of tiled buildings with mud-
walls, and though of the same size, do not contain the same number of rooms ; the
one for married men having 20 rooms in it, 10 being placed back to back, whilst
in the single men's pendall there are 22 rooms. The cross-streets, running east to
west between the lines of each company, are about 70 feet broad, whilst the
central street is 116 feet wide ; but the streets running north to south between
the Native officers' houses and the pendalls are only 22 feet broad, and the
pendalls themselves have been built in much too close proximity to each other,
as only about 3 feet are said to intervene between the ends of adjacent buildings.
5. From the natural slope of the ground on which they are built, the plinths
vary very much in height, being at the east end almost level with the surface of
the ground, whilst on the west they are raised for one or two feet. From the
same cause the walls at the east end are universally low ; one, measured, was only
3' 7" in height. In the rooms the height of the ridge is stated to be 13' 9", while
that of the front wall is only 5', whilst the doorway is said to be only 4½ feet
high. The superficial area allowed for each married man is said to be 100
square feet, and for each single man 90 feet ; whilst the cubic space allowed to
each married man is said to be 1,375 cubic feet, and that for a single man 1,237
cubic feet. Each hut consists of an inner room, divided from the verandah out-
-side by a mud wall ; and the doorway, fixed as it is in the verandah wall, forms the
only means of entrance of light and air. The room is perfectly dark when the
door is shut. The floors are of mud, and in the corner of the verandah is the
nanee or bathing-place, the wastage water from which is led out through a half-
tile into a gutter on to the ground outside, which is in some cases continued on
to the surface drain, which is excavated down the slope in front of each row of
pendalls, and which discharges itself into the nullah. In other cases it is led to
the strips of gardens or the trees in front of each row of huts. Practically, all
the bathing-water soaks into the ground close to the huts.
6. The regimental bazaar is situated in the close proximity to and on the
west of the lines. It contains the following shops for the sale of :—
Grain.
Mutton.
Wood.
Milk.
Vegetables.
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There are 38 houses in it, in which 102 persons are living. The huts are
built in 2 rows, and consist of buildings with tiled roofs and mud walls.
7. The bazaar is close to the regimental latrines, which occupy a position
to the west (to windward) of the lines, and are built just above the
nullah. There are two latrines containing 44 seats for males, and one with 16 seats for
the women of the regiment. They are built on the standard plan with lime
and masonry and a tiled roof ; the iron-pan below each seat is supposed to hold
all the ordure passed, but the men micturate over the urine-guard, and the ablution
water flows down the paved surface, at the back, into a cesspool which is covered