1 THE WUZEERUT OF HEERA SING. 131
2 under Meean Sone Sing by occasionally facing about brought
3 the pursuers to a halt and enabled the Rajah and his
4 suite to gain ground upon them. Thus they advanced for
5 ten or twelve coss, until about mid-day, when the Pundit com-
6 pletely, exhausted by his exertions, fell from his horse and was
7 instantly cut to pieces by the pursuing Seiks. A little further
8 on the Dogras entered a small village of some twenty houses, and
9 here Heera Sing dismounted to quench his thirst, but he could
10 not obtain anything to drink, and the Seiks coming up sur-
11 rounded the place and set it on fire. The Rajah and his
12 followers then remounted and attempted to escape, but here or
13 in this neighbourhood the whole party was cut down, with the
14 exception of six private soldiers, who owed their lives to the
15 swiftness of their horses.
16 The heads of the different chiefs as they were cut off were
17 brought in triumph into the city, and were next morning hung
18 up in public view inside the several gates. That of Heera
19 Sing was exposed at the Loharee gateway, and that of Sone
20 Sing at the Moree gateway. The body and head of Meean
21 Laub Sing were, however, saved from this indignity by Meva
22 Sing and some other Gorechars who had served under and
23 been well treated by him. The head of Pundit Jellah was
24 treated with the greatest indignity by the Akalees, who would
25 not allow of its being hung up with the others, but carried
26 it about the city for some days, from house to house and from
27 shop to shop, exhibiting it to the people amidst all kinds of inde-
28 cent and insulting* language, and extorting* money from those
29 to whom they thus exposed it. The unpopularity of the mur-
30 dered Pundit was strikingly exemplified in the fact, that
31 even the women on seeing his head thus made a show broke
32 out into the most bitter exclamations against him. At length
33 when the head of the Pundit had been exhibited to the whole
34 city, it was by order of Jewahir Sing given to the dogs. Those
35 of Heera Sing and Sone Sing were taken down from the gates-