1 194 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
2 thereupon most deliberately cut down with a sword. His body
3 was then handed over by the assassins to his friends that
4 it might be disposed of in accordance with the ceremonies of
5 their religion and custom.
6 Meean Sing had a Bungee, or slave, to whom he had shewn
7 great kindness and favour, even making him the Under Kotwal
8 or Deputy Superintendent of Police in Cashmere. When
9 this man heard of the murder of his master and friend, he
10 went in disguise and marked out the leader of the assassins.
11 He then on the next night, taking with him a trusty follower,
12 made his way into the house where this chief of the mur-
13 derers was sleeping with some thirty others around him.
14 Having effected their entrance, the Bungee and his com-
15 rade slew the leader and his second ere the rest of the party
16 took the alarm, and having thus fulfilled their purpose, made
17 their escape as they came. They then hastened from the
18 valley and into th*e Punjaub, and gave information at Lahore
19 of what had been done and was doing in Cashmere.
20 Thereupon a body of about five thousand men was sent
21 into the valley under the nominal command of Pertaub
22 Sing, the son of Shere Sing, who was placed under the charge
23 of Rajah Goolaub Sing. The object of this expedition was
24 of course to punish the mutineers and murderers, to restore
25 order and quiet in the country, and to instal a new Governor
26 in the place of Meean Sing. The troops advanced to the
27 very city of Cashmere without meeting the least opposition;
28 but it appeared that the mutineers were here resolved to
29 stand their ground. They refused to deliver up their arms
30 on being summoned to surrender, and though Rajah Goolaub
31 Sing condescended to negotiate with them for some time,
32 it was to no purpose. On this, the order went forth that
33 they should be attacked in the intrenchments which they had
34 formed on the south bank of a small stream, there called the Dood-
35 Guno-a. On hearing that the assault had been determined on,