1 196 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
2 and drove the whole line back to a distance of about a hun-
3 dred yards. Again, however, the heavy and continued fire
4 of overpowering* numbers compelled the mutineers to retire to
5 their entrenchments, — all but about fifty of them, who broke
6 desperately into the midst of the Durbar troops and sold their
7 lives most dearly.
8 On this occasion the standard-bearer of the mutineers dis-
9 tinguished himself greatly. He was seen to rush forward with
10 his colours, — to plant them in the sand, — to leap in among the
11 troops, laying about him with his sword, — to return to his stand-
12 ard,— advance with it to another spot, — again plant it and again
13 cut his way forward. Thus he acted for about a quarter of
14 an hour, making great havoc among the Durbar troops, of
15 whom he killed about twenty with his own hand. At length
16 he fell, shot through the head by a matchlock ball. The loss
17 of the Rajah's troops in this affair was about five hundred
18 men, the mutineers losing about half that number.
19 The mutineers who yet remained, having re-assembled, now
20 retreated towards the Peer Punjal Pass, intending to make
21 their way out of the valley and into the Punjaub. They
22 were however, met by Meean Jewahir Sing, the nephew of
23 Goolaub Sing, who with about four thousand men, had been
24 left to guard the pass and to prevent their egress. By this
25 force they were attacked just as they had reached the southern
26 side of the Peer Punjul range, and being unable to resist
27 the assault of numbers so superior, they were dispersed
28 with considerable loss. Those who escaped fled towards Lahore,
29 where when all had come in they assembled about five hundred
30 men. They now sought to be reinstated in the service of the
31 Maharajh, but Shere Sing ordered that they should be disbanded
32 and discharged, and on this they dispersed to their respective
33 homes.
34 Goolaub Sing having thus effected the object of his expedi-
35 tion to Cashmere, left Shaik Mohee-ood-deen as Governor