1 TO INTRODUCTION.
2 Khauns. While m were tliiere, several parties who hadootfne ovif
3 filnn- llie enemy, were suocessiYely introdliocld. Xhejr catered by the
4 gate opposite the King's twt, where they were drawn up in aliMb
5 Uieiff namte were announced, and they went through the usual form
6 of praying for the King, after which they retired. At the end of
7 each prayer, the whole of the guards called out Aumeen (Amen).
8 Wlien this waK over, we were requested to go up close to the King,
9 accompanied bv Akram and Muddud KJiaun. The Kin£j thou ad-
10 dressed me, saying, that we must be unaccustomed to so luisettleti a
11 govemmpnt as his was at present, and that altlumgh he parted with
12 us with reluctance, yet he was uuwiliing to ex[>osc us to the incon-
13 venience of a campaign, and he therefore wished us to retire^to some
14 place on the frontier, from which we could either join him, or return
15 to Intlia, as suited our convenience. In the course of the conversa-
16 tion-which followed, His Majesty spoke in high terms of the British
17 nAdon, and hoped he should be able to cany vm with fasm to' Candid
18 hvendHennitt When be had conelq<ied> Aknm Kh«un» Miiddnti
19 KiMim, iad the fibgf • Jnumm, leveielly made ipeeohei eiMiewwi t»
20 the Kiiig» eommwting on What. His Majesty had said, and enlaignDg
21 in the jiutio^ good laith» and military rqmtation of the Britiah, Mid
22 en Uie advaiiti^et to-be derived from an alliance with sudi a people*
23 At-thia audience^ the Kinig wore'a hig|i cap of plain red docfaf widi »
24 blaek Tehret band nmnd the bottom. He had no jewda on: a maoe^
25 a iwoidt and a caibine^ lay bafeie hkn on a cnahion. Several penona
26 were 'in the' tent- with hiraf ftnning him by turaa* and among lh«n
27 was Meer Abool Hnssun Ehaun. Th» King looked iU and haggaid*'
28 as if exhavflted by the heat, and by anxiety of mind.
29 - On the two nest daysi we had latewell visits from Akram Ehatni
30 and many other persons ; andon the 1 4th , i n the ev^iing» we commenced
31 our march ibr the Indus. The King's affairs were now in a highly-
32 prosperous oot^dition. He had equipped a tolerable army, and was
33 ready to mc>ve against the enemy, whose dissensions had come to
34 such ;i pitc h, that Futteh Khaun had seized his rival in the midst of
35 the court, and had thus occanmsed the deiection of two oi' the great
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