1 206 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
2 to the yoke which the Dogra chiefs sought to impose upon
3 them.
4 One of the head-men of the Sudhun tribe when it submitted
5 to the Dogras, was Shumass Khan. This man, as a hostage
6 for the fidelity of his clan and family, was kept about the
7 person of Rajah Dehan Sing, whom he actually served as a
8 private Gorechar trooper. In this capacity he so far won the
9 favour of his master, and was taken so far into his confidence,
10 that he incurred the jealousy and dislike of the elder brother,
11 Goolaub Sing. This feeling of hostility induced Goolaub on
12 several occasions to remonstrate with his brother, on what
13 he chose to consider the folly and impropriety of reposing his
14 confidence in a man so circumstanced as was Shumass Khan.
15 The younger brother, however, could never see the matter in
16 the same light, and he accordingly continued to display his
17 favour and partiality to the fallen chieftain as before. Shumass
18 was to all appearance duly grateful to his patron and recipro-
19 cated his regard ; and thus he remained in close personal atten-
20 dance on Rajah Dehan Sing at Lahore, until near the end
21 of the year 1836.
22 About this time Rajah Goolaub Sing was summoned from
23 Chiniote, where he was just commencing a campaign against
24 Dewan Sawun Mull of Moultan, and compelled to hasten with
25 all his troops towards Peshawur, where the Affghans had won
26 a temporary success over the Seiks, and had killed the Governor,
27 Sirdar Hurriett Sing. Rajah Dehan Sing had already hastened
28 to the point endangered, having left Runjeet Sing encamped at
29 Ramnuggur ; and, attended by a few horseman, made so rapid
30 a march that he arrived at Peshawur in little more than three
31 days. Goolaub, as has been said, broke up his camp at Chiniote,
32 and, without any warning or previous arrangement, his army
33 was directed to hasten, every division as it best could, towards
34 Peshawur. His force consisted of about six thousand men,
35 horse and foot, with twelve light guns ; yet with the exception