1 214 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
2 had rendered him in the subjugation of Monkera and even of
3 their own country.
4 It was, however, chiefly through the instrumentality of Rajah
5 Dehan Sing- that these men were first introduced to Runjeet's
6 special notice. On their arrival at Lahore, Dehan Sing fre-
7 quently exhibited them and their followers before the Maharajh,
8 displaying* their wonderful skill in the management of their
9 horses and arms. One feat, which particularly pleased Runjeet,
10 was that of striking a tent peg from the ground with the
11 spear while at full gallop. It was thus that the Maharajh
12 was induced to take favourable notice of the Tewanah brothers,
13 and to retain them in his immediate service, with a jaghire
14 in their own district of about six thousand rupees, enlisting
15 also their fifty or sixty followers at about three hundred rupees
16 each sowar yearly.
17 Khoda Buksh was placed in command of the little troop
18 of horsemen, the father being appointed Chabook sowar, or
19 rough rider, in attendance on Runjeet, in which capacity his
20 skill and adroitness earned him many marks of the Maharajh' s
21 favour. Futteh Khan, being a particular favourite of Rajah
22 Dehan Sing, became his right hand man, and chief councillor
23 in all his hunting expeditions, an office for which his previous
24 habits of life peculiarly suited him.
25 Thus the family advanced their interest and influence at
26 Lahore, until about the year 1832, when the father died.
27 On his death, Futteh Khan and his brother, at the intercession
28 of Dehan Sing, received a considerable addition to their jaghire,
29 which already amounted to twelve or fifteen thousand rupees
30 a year. A district worth twenty or thirty thousand rupees,
31 in the Hazareh country, was given to them in farm. Sirdar
32 Hurriett Sing, Nellowa, then Governor of Peshawar, was an
33 implacable enemy of the Tewanah family, and had hitherto
34 been the sole obstacle to their rise and advancement, judging
35 that as he held the greater part of the Hazareh country in