1 HISTOM OF THE SIKHS.
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3 % powerful motives, and under certain vows, will
4 stop at- no crime, whatever its enormity may be.
5 I hey are great impostors; and with an external
6 semblance of piety, they conceal within their breasts
7 the blackest and most malignant spirit.
8 'I he scanty records regarding Bunda give little
9 information as to any good properties he may have
10 possessed; but he is allowed, on all hands, to have
11 been a man of undoubted valour and bravery *, and
12 the coolness with which he met his death may be
13 here quoted from Malcolm’s “ Sketch. ” “ Bunda
14 was at length produced, his son being seated in his
15 lap. His father was ordered to cut his throat;
16 which he did, without uttering a word. Being then
17 brought nearer the magistrate’s tribunal, the latter
18 ordered his flesh to be torn off with red-hot pincers, n; 3 cme)
19 and it, was in those moments he expired; his black^
20 soul taking its flight by one of those wounds, towards
21 the regions for which it was so well fitted. ” These
22 are, ot course, the words of a Mussulman, rejoicing
23 at the end ot a brave, but cruel man, who had
24 wreaked his vengeance in such a fearful manner on
25 the Moslems.
26 .Bunda, though following the dying commands of j nc ij n e-d to
27 Goorqo Govand, was himself inclined to make sfeve- ^novadwfs.
28 ral changes in the manners of the Sikhs, and, among
29 others to substitute for the war cry of Govind,
30 “Wah! wah! Qootte jee he Jutteh, futteh dlterml
31 fiiiteh dhumtti ! —(Success to piety, success to the
32 sect.)
33 The dread in which Bunda was held by his fob