1 Europeans, for the most part I’reneh and English olfiteers, itl
2 the service of the Lahore government. It, was the common
3 saving, that we should bye and bye i'oftn a colony ; but. Jellah
4 i'undic dismissed them from the service, one after the other,
5 alleging economical motives, but, in tart, from religious fanaticism;
6 so that I and li e Spaniard only remained. Hut at last I too was
7 dismissed. Nevertheless, I remained in the city; and cautiously
8 made preparations for mv departure-, and for that purpose
9 had sold ail my effects at u very low price. J did this partly by
10 the advice of my friends, partly by my own inclination* per¬
11 suaded as J was that such misgovenunent could not be of long
12 duration, and anticipating what the future must bring forth.
13 I did not doubt for one moment that they vould bring the heads
14 of the minister and his bail adviser as trophies to Lahore; and
15 my supposition vm> realised by the result. The fanatics, the
16 Akalecs (immortals), or rather the robber-pack, the Nab tings,
17 exhibited for money the head of Jellab, at Lahore and tjmritsir
18 4! That is the rogue,” they exclaimed, “ who induced the young
19 lleem Sing to murder his uncle, the brave llnjah Soochet Sing,
20 for which lie wanted an army of 20,000 men, although his
21 antagonist was only assisted by forty valiant nnnmtaiilfeert."
22 This murder happened in a small mosque, five miles from
23 Lahore. Jellab, the idol of Heera Sing, intrigued as a decided
24 .fanatic against the high priest, of the Sikhs, Gooroo Baba Beer
25 Siug. I.'nder the pretext that this holy ui«n v ms on good terms
26 with the rebels and fugitives, and collected them in liis catnp. in
27 order to surrender the country to the English, lie spurred tin*
28 minister on to scud a part of his troops to the residence of the
29 pyiest, and to take the fugitives prisoners. At this expedition,
30 accompanied by great biotic, the Gooroo was shot, together with
31 a great number of horned cattle (liolv beasts, sacred among the
32 Hindoos and Sikhs), and numerous poor people supported In
33 the charity of the priest; part of them were driven into the
34 river Sutle j, near to Hurekec-ke-Puttun (a ferry on the Sutlej),
35 when they perished. Among the slain there was also Cashmere
36 Sing, son to Bnnjttt Sing, who had been driven from the fiat-