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2 misplaced. Jewaliir Sing, on his appearance at Lahore, pre-
3 sented him with a valuable Khelut and additional jag-hires in
4 Hazareh worth ten or eleven lakhs a year, including Dera
5 Ismail Khan, Golatchee, Bunnoo-Tank, and Mitha Tewanah,
6 with all their dependencies. His son, also, a mere youth,
7 was made a general of artillery, with a salary of twelve hun-
8 dred rupees a month.
9 Khoda Buksh, the brother of Futteh Khan, died at Mitha
10 Tewanah, of cholera, when this disease was raging throughout
11 the Punjaub. Soon after this event, a private perwanah from
12 Jewaliir Sing, instructed Futteh Khan to proceed with all his
13 troops against Peshora Sing, then at Attock, whom he was to cap-
14 ture and put to death. In this affair, which has been detailed
15 elsewhere, he was joined and assisted by Chuttur Sing Attaree-
16 walla, and in the murderous business they both acquitted
17 themselves greatly to the satisfaction of their employer. On
18 the death of the Prince, Futteh Khan hastily retired to
19 his domains of Dera Ismail Khan and Bunnoo-Tank,
20 where he knew he would be safe from the apprehended ven-
21 geance of the Khalsa on the murderers of their favourite
22 Peshora Sing. He thus avoided the retribution which fell
23 on his patron and employer, Jewahir Sing, who became a
24 victim to the rage of the troops.
25 Elated with his former successes and the impunity with
26 which he had hitherto escaped, Futteh Khan now determined
27 to rid himself of some of his principal enemies in the
28 country about him. In fulfilment of this design, he, while
29 living at Dera Ismail Khan, invited certain Patans, his
30 intended victims, to a great feast, and when his <mests
31 were off their guard, he had the whole party put to death by
32 the swords of his followers. The clansmen of the murder-
33 ed chiefs, however, enraged at this bloody and treacherous act,
34 united for the punishment of the murderer, and, attacking him
35 with a considerable force, he was compelled to flee across the
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