1 216 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
2 and his adviser were any tiling but favourably disposed
3 towards him. He was taxed with treachery and unfaithful-
4 ness on the occasion of Dehan Sing's assassination, and soon
5 found that evil was in store for him. Heera Sing and the
6 Pundit, as a pretext for laying their hands on him, demanded
7 a lakh of rupees as due for the country held by his family
8 in the Hazareh, and claimed from him thirty thousand camels,
9 which they said Rajah Dehan Sing had given into his charge.
10 Compliance with these demands being out of the question,
11 and their fulfilment being insisted on, Futteh Khan, by night
12 and in disguise, fled from Lahore and retired to his patrimo-
13 nial estate of Mitha Tewanah. Thither he was ere long
14 followed by a body of troops sent from Lahore to take him
15 prisoner. He had, however, got the start sufficiently to be able
16 to flee with his family and the greater part of his moveable pro-
17 perty across the Indus, where he found a safe retreat. Find-
18 ing their pursuit ineffectual, the troops sent against him
19 returned to Lahore without having fulfilled the object of their
20 journey. On their retirement, Futteh Khan recrossed from his
21 hiding place, and was able to collect a large force of Moolkeeas
22 or inhabitants of the surrounding districts. Putting himself
23 at the head of these insurgent bands, he began to lay waste
24 with fire and sword the whole country within his reach. Plun-
25 der, rapine, and revenge being his only objects, he was too
26 prudent to attempt to meet the regular troops that were from
27 time to time sent from Lahore against him. This predatory
28 warfare he kept up during nearly the whole administration
29 of Heera. Sing and Pundit Jellah ; but on receiving news
30 of the death of these his enemies, he hastened to Lahore,
31 assured of a favourable reception from Jewahir Sing, who now
32 came into power. His hope of favour with the new Wuzeer
33 was founded on the encouragement which he had received from
34 that Sirdar in his measures for the annoyance of their common
35 enemies, Heera Sing and the Pundit. Nor was his confidence