1 for our sins ; wo did not deserve any better fate, for there, beyond
2 the river, is the land where we killed our gooroo with his cows."
3 Major G. C. Smyth, in his history, says very truly concerning
4 the attack on the gooroo:—“One of the first victims was the holy
5 It'd, one of whose legs was nearly knocked oif by a cannon b ill.
6 Liter Sing and Cashmere Sing, with some other sirdars, fell in the
7 conflict which ensued; and numbers of their people were drowned
8 in th. river in attempting to escape. The Sikhs lost all difir
9 reverence for their gooroo, the sight of the rich plunder w hich
10 his camp afforded, being a temptation too strong for their piety.
11 Their only object now wav to secure, every man for himself, as
12 much of the booty as lie could ; but fur this they had to light
13 hard When the struggle whs over, the Baba was found breath¬
14 ing iris liftst, in exclamations against those of his own caste mid
15 creed. l ie now produced many of the letters which he had received
16 —the forgeries before mentioned—to prove, as he supposed, the
17 treachery and villainy of the Sikh chief-, and officers, who, as he
18 believed to the last, had written these letters, instigating him to
19 take the purt of Utter Sing. - When,’ said he to the Sikhs
20 mound him, ‘you and your chiefs and officers wrote these letters
21 to me, with the most solemn promises, both to myself and Utter
22 Sing, i relied on your good faith, and agreed to your proposals,
23 in the Hope of obtaining for Utter Sing and Iris family the means
24 of a quiet livelihood; but you, calling yourselves Sikhs, are
25 worse than Mahomedans. You have proved yourselves a vile,
26 treacherous and unfaithful race, without pity or religion. Still :
27 inv dying prayer to heaven is, may even your vvickedne-w. be
28 requited by good.’ lie then gave directions that Ins body should
29 1)0 thrown into the river, that his bones might not he left on such
30 a land of iniquity," &c., &c.
31 Utter Sing was an uucleof Ajeet Sing, and brother of Lena Sing,
32 ■ who were- the murderers of Sheer Sing, Dhyan Sing, and Pertaub
33 Sing, Stc., &c. They we, • all members of the Scindawalla family,
34 and relat'd to Runjeet Sing; for this reason, Utter Sing embraced
35 the party of the Ranee Cbund Kohi-, at the outbreak of the civil
36 contentions. But the fortress of Lahore having been surren-