1 121 SECRET HISTORY OF THE LAHORE DURBAR.
2 country received urgent commands to march immediately for
3 Cashmere by the Moozufferabad road, which because of the snow
4 was at that season of the year utmost impassable even for a single
5 cossid or hurkara. To add to the difficulties reported, it was said
6 that betwixt Moozufferabad and Cashmere, there were a large
7 fort and twenty smaller ones, all in the hands of the insurgents*
8 Shaik Imam-ood-deen, the son of the Governor, was accordingly
9 sent off with two Seik battalions and about a thousand or twelve
10 hundred Ramgoles and new levies, in great haste and badly
11 equipped, to make his way to Cashmere by the Bimber and
12 Poonch road. After these details it is not to be wondered
13 at that nothing was done, that the various divisions of the
14 army stood fast on the route, and never reached Cashmere,
15 while in the mean time the storm that had threatened blew
16 over.
17 Soon after Meean Sone Sing arrived at Lahore, and when
18 to all appearance, the friendship betwixt Goolaub Sing and
19 his nephew the Wuzeer was perfectly re-established, a report
20 was got up, that an entire battalion, of Goolaub's troops
21 stationed at Gujerat, had been cut up, and a large convoy
22 of treasure attacked and plundered by Peshora Sing. The
23 truth of the story appears to be that Goolaub Sing during
24 the time of his differences with his nephew frequently made
25 offers of alliance to the Prince, and promised him supplies
26 of men and money to prevail on him to join against Heera Sing.
27 Peshora Sing was thus induced to raise some eighteen hundred
28 or two thousand men, horse and foot, to assist the Dogra
29 chief. When Goolaub had settled his differences with his nephew,
30 he without ceremony discharged about twelve or fifteen thou-
31 sand of his troops, paying them but a very small part of what
32 was due to them, and even taking their arms and accoutrements
33 from many of them. Just at this time the men whom Peshora
34 Sing had raised, and who were encamped at Gurriawalla
35 demanded their pay. Thereupon the Prince being without