1 He thought probably to r in >• >m bis-life with it, bur he • was
2 mistaken. The Ranee ami Mir.igela, with many slave-girls,
3 followed hint <«t 'ieral elephant- Winn the train arrived
4 at the camp, the soldiers first took Dolleep Sing from his
5 lap, and.sent him with his mother iu r royal tent, erected on
6 purpose for the court. Scarcely was that done, when they
7 fired at Jewahir ring, without any further ceremony, and the
8 same fate awaited two of his attemhm' , named Baba-Rtittun-
9 •>*iig and Oiictta Payah. This catastrophe made such a deep
10 impression on the Ranee and Mungela, that for natty weeks
11 tloy were ({uito inconsolable; they appeared before the public
12 fm several days with their hair loose, os. if mud. Every
13 uiorniit". they went from the fortress >n foot., crossing the prd
14 (place for exercising soldiers) in the garden where Jewahir
15 Sing had been burnt with both his companions und five living
16 women; there they gave free vent to their tears, to rclievi
17 their oppressed hearts.
18 In the year 1S4J the cholera arrived at Lahore, having
19 travelled through Tnrkistan and Cabal. At the same time
20 Ghoiab Sing was brought from Jummoo, a town in tin* moun¬
21 tains, a prisoner to Lahore, and he might have congratulated
22 himself on having e ,'aperl t.he persecution of Jewaliir Sing; for
23 it was well known that at different periods attempts bad behn made,
24 upon his life. The reason of Jewahir’s hatred against him was
25 tint Ghokib Sing had persuaded a great number of the Sikh
26 troops to follow his banner, to whom lie trusted himself. He
27 w s brought from Jummoo to Lahore, in consequence of Ins
28 r; istance to some government exactions. If is a remarkable
29 fact, that Ghoiab Sing, in spite of his-, fortress being blockaded
30 by numerous troops, was bold enough to give art order to murder
31 on the road the delegates of the Sikh whom he himself had
32 despatched with the subsidies requested by the government, at.
33 if he had regretted performing his duty.
34 During his struggles in the mountains, Kumoor Sing, well
35 known to the English as the commander of the Sikh troops at
36 vox,. T.
37 j.