1 waul* lie followed his father, Huiyeet Sing, to the funeral-
2 pile. r j'h e rumour was current that, he was poisoned, and
3 tin poison employed was also specified, hot J do not. believe
4 it. Only it is a fact, that the son showed great indifference in
5 regard to the treatment of his father, or lor his recovery;
6 and, during Ins father’s illness he never saw him hut onct
7 or twice, oud then but a short time belore his death; on winch
8 occasion tile father was treated by his only sou in a maimer
9 quite revolting, even to the natives around, which accounts
10 for his having committed him into the hands of inexperienced
11 physicians mi l iaqueers. I, the only appointed European
12 physician, was never called for during the king’s disease, which
13 lasted nine months. It is probable that the patient requested
14 mv assistance, hut the son prevented my attending. Had he
15 known that the death-day of his father would also be his
16 own, he certainly would have behaved in another manner.
17 On the same day in which the king, Kunuck Sing, nod his
18 only son died, a curious event happened. Early in the morning,
19 I was called by Meoan Outturn Sing, eldest son of the Maharajah
20 Gholab Sing, and he committed the Chief of his mountain
21 troops to mv treatment, he being very ill, promising me a pair <>J
22 Cashmere sjhavls in case I should he able, as I expected, to
23 relieve hint by the evening. My new patient was nimble to
24 void Ins urine, and was troubled with gravel in the kidney s. He
25 recovered I he same day, whilst Outturn Sing himself, as we
26 shall see, met with his death. When I hastened into the
27 house of the patient, summoned as 1 was by Oo'iti.m Ring, with
28 whom he lived, I found both in a small room, anti, according to
29 the custom of the Hindoos, the. patient was lying on the floor,
30 whilst Oottum Sing was sitting on the bed, offering me to sic
31 near him. We were speaking about the disease of the patient,
32 when sudden!v a messenger entered, with the news that the
33 Maharajah Kun uck Sing had expired a few minutes previously,
34 'l'lie ceremony of the funeral-pile took place the same afternoon.
35 Three of his wives were burnt with him ; and I was present, ftt
36 that horrid, yet remarkable spectacle. The ceremony t«".k pWe