1 THE WUZEERUT OF HEERA SING.
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3 mission Rajah Goolaub gave for answer that he would not
4 treat until Meean Jewahir Sing', the younger brother of Rajah
5 Heera Sing, should arrive from Lahore, when he would be
6 ready to agree to almost any terms proposed. In a few
7 days, therefore, Meean Jewahir Sing arrived at Jummoo, and
8 ere long the troops were recalled to Lahore, every thing being
9 satisfactorily arranged. The mission also returned to Lahore,
10 bringing with them Meean Sone Sing, the second and now the
11 eldest son of Rajah Goolaub Sing.
12 Six battalions were now ordered to proceed towards Attock
13 and Peshawar, where troops were likely to be required, tLe
14 rebel chief Zubburdust Khan having fomented disturbances
15 in the Hazareh, Trinoul, and Moozufferabad districts. Many
16 days had not elapsed when news arrived that the Moolkeas
17 (inhabitants) of Hazareh, Moozufferabad, Kukka Bumba
18 &c. had collected to the number of twenty-five or thirty
19 thousand, and were joined by the brother of Paindha
20 Khan with his troops. It was believed, however, in Dur-
21 bar that they were headed or at least directed by some of
22 the sons of Dost Mahomed, that they had actually taken
23 all the forts from Hazareh to Cashmere, killing upwards
24 of fifteen hundred Seiks, and that they were now on the point
25 of attacking Cashmere itself. A day or two later news
26 arrived of the capture of Cashmere, that the Durbar troops,
27 twelve hundred Rohillas, had joined the insurgents, and
28 that the Governor, with some five hundred men, was shut up
29 in the fort of Hurree Purvut, near the capital. After this
30 no certain intelligence arrived, accounts coming in of the roads
31 being impassable from snow, and rumours going abroad of
32 the Governor's death. Matters stood thus, when Meean Jewahir
33 Sing arrived in haste from Jummoo on some special and pri-
34 vate business ; he had a secret conference with the Minister and
35 alter a stay of only two days went off on his return. On this the
36 six Seik battalions and other troops that were in the Hazaj