1 ^18 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.
2 Indus to his own district of Mitha Tewanah. It was while resid-
3 ing here that he learnt, seemingly to his great astonishment,
4 that his conduct at Dera Ismail Khan was regarded at Lahore
5 as so heinous, that he had heen proclaimed a traitor and
6 a rebel, and that troops had been sent towards Mitha Tewanah
7 for his apprehension. Knowing, however, that at the capital
8 craft and money could do any thing, he sent in his submission
9 by the hands of his mother, accompanied by large sums of
10 money as presents to the Ranee and her confidential adviser,
11 the slave girl Mungela. His ambassadress, thus accredited
12 and recommended, was of course well received. She was
13 provided with a residence in the palace, and taken into
14 the favour of the Ranee, and what was more to the purpose
15 of the all-powerful Mungela, whose good offices had, it is
16 said, been purchased by no less than a lakh of rupees. It
17 hardly need be said, after this, that Futteh Khan was re-
18 lieved from all fear of present molestation, and allowed to
19 remain in quiet, for a while. Subsequently, however, affairs
20 turned so much to his disadvantage that he found himself
21 deprived of a great part of the country to the west of the
22 Indus, which was made over to the son of Dewan Lekhee.