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4 HISTORY Of THE SIKHS.
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7 vice of Dawbut Khan Lodi, a delation oi the reign¬
8 ing emperor of Delhi, fieloli Lodi.-— Malcolm .
9 Nanuk’s intellect was precocious. At the early hu belief in
10 age of four, he was sent to the village school, the
11 master whereof was a Deist, and wished to inculcate
12 the same principle in his youthful scholar, but the
13 boy, to his great astonishment, instead ot yielding
14 implicit credence, enquired ot his teacher, “ What
15 proofs he could give him of the existence of a God V*
16 Such a question naturally inspired the man with a
17 ■Wish to know more of his scholar, and on making
18 inquiry, he was told that Nanuk was the gift oi a
19 fukeer! Or* hearing this, the schoolmaster re¬
20 nounced the world and became a fukeer himself.
21 As Nanuk advanced in years, he became partial
22 to fukeers, dividing his property amongst them;
23 and though he wanted proof of the existence of a
24 Deity in his boyhood, he soon became a firm
25 believer in one.
26 His partiality to the fukeers led him often into partiality to
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28 serious scrapes with his father: one is related by
29 Malcokfh Nanuk having received a sum of money
30 from his father to purchase salt at one village,
31 in order to sell it at another, happened on the
32 road to fall in with some fukeers, with whom he
33 wished to commence a- conversation, but they were
34 so weak from want of victuals, which they had not
35 tasted for three days, that they could only reply to
36 the observations of Nanuk by bending their heads,
37 and other civil signs of 'acquiescence.
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