1 the Manners ami customs, of the country, and therefore ignorant
2 of the proper method of dealing with such u people, were sent,
3 accompanied by a native, Serdar Kan Sing, to M col tan, to
4 receive the state uccouh'.h from the Mulraj, and to take .their
5 posts as governors of that district. Both these office's were
6 barbarously murdered ; and the natives, as if by a given signal,
7 rose in revolt against the English. The troops of the provinces
8 Ikvtnv-Tank, Harareh and Peshnvur also joined the hostile move
9 meht; and a conspiracy v a« detected at Lahore, in which, is
10 before mentioned, the rune, was implicated. Their intention v ;e,
11 to carry away Dullecp Sing, and to bring him into the camp of
12 the insurgents. An earnest and b ooh stiuggle arose - Dost
13 Mahomed Khan, of Cubul, whom the English released a few
14 years ago from prison, took the conduct of the Sikhs, and 1
15 the) defeated the English in two battles, at fynnnuggur
16 and ChUliah wallah; and it was not lx fore the return of
17 Sir H. Lawnuee thn' the English recovered then position, by
18 those two deciding battles of Mooltan and Gujerat, on the
19 Chenaub river; after which—viz, on die 1st of May, 1849—the
20 country was annexed to the English possessions; die Sikh
21 durbar was abolished; and rny official capacity depending only-
22 on the existence of that hdy, wa> vensequgntly at its end. I
23 solicited a pension, which 1 obtained, JDuIleep Sing was sent to
24 .lie interior of India, where he lived upon a pension, derived
25 from the revenue of'the same country from which I receive my
26 own; the only difference between the two pensions being, that
27 I am allowed to expend mine wherever I please. The receipt,
28 however, must he at Lahore; my agent, there presenting a
29 life certificate, signed by an English authority.
30 It war in flit year 1889 that I had returned to Lahore, after
31 having visited the European continent and my native country.
32 I enjoyed the pleasure, on my return, of being the companion of
33 General Ventura, who was also hastening to India to resume hh
34 duties. On our voyage we had many conversations, among
35 which, the events which had happened during my absence from
36 Lahore underwent discussion. Ori that occasion, the general