1 162 SECRET HISTORY OF THE LAHORE DURBAR.
2 Kanger, and went to Noorpoor, whence this nioonshee carried
3 her to Lahore, where she for a while lived as his concubine. But
4 this connection, however formed, did not last long. Her protec-
5 tor soon discovered that her habits, as indeed might have been
6 expected from her training, were extremely loose and dissolute.
7 She would absent herself from her apartments for days together,
8 and it was discovered that on these occasions her usual resorts
9 were the houses of some of the Kangers of the city, whither
10 she went to obtain money, with which the moonshee did not
11 supply her as liberally as she desired. By these means she
12 is said to have raised funds sufficient for the purchase of a set
13 of golden ornaments, worth perhaps twelve or fifteen hundred
14 rupees. On discovering her true character, the moonshee re-
15 solved to get rid of her by some means or other ; and she,
16 suspecting his designs, fled from his house, and openly took up
17 the trade of a common prostitute in the city. About the year
18 1833 or 1834, she became acquainted with Topee Moskee,
19 the uncle of Gulloo Moskee, a favourite attendant on the
20 person of Runjeet Sing, and went to live in his house. After
21 she had remained here some time, Topee Moskee gave her over
22 to the charge of. his nephew, Gulloo Moskee, who was then
23 engaged in his amorous intrigues with Mai Chunda. About
24 the end of 1835, Gulloo Moskee introduced the slave-girl
25 to Mai Chunda, by whom she was employed as a confidential
26 ao-ent, in the conveyance of secret messages connected with
27 her amours. The moonshee, Jessa, the former master of Mun-
28 o-ela, hearing that she was now in the possession of either
29 Topee Moskee or his nephew Gulloo Moskee, went and made a
30 demand for her, founding it on the fact that he had bought her
31 of the Kangers of Kangra for forty rupees, and that she had
32 absconded from his house. Gulloo Moskee, in whose hands
33 the girl now was, disputed the moonshee's claim, and refused
34 to give her up ; this led to a dispute, which was the occa-
35 sion of Mungela's being brought before Runjeet Sing. She