1 A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE JUMMOO FAMILY. 2l?5
2 of a clause in some conditional treaty. He took most of his
3 boats, and part of his troops lined each bank of the river, while
4 he is said in a manner to have forgotten his unfortunate follow-
5 ers, the nine or ten thousand men left on the west bank of the
6 Scindor Indus. However this may be, on his retreat the atten-
7 tion of the Indian army was called towards this small body of
8 Greek troops, who had among- them all the sick and weakly, or
9 those that were unable to attend their leader down the Jhelum.
10 Soon, therefore, this body of his troops was attacked and routed,
11 the greater part of them flying in the direction of the city of
12 Khaundore, and thence northward towards the snowy range,
13 which they entered, and whence they are supposed never to
14 have returned. Some of them retreated into Kaflristan, and in
15 this country under the different names of Seer Post or Posht,
16 &c. the present descendants of this unfortunate relic of the
17 Greek army may be supposed to exist ; while all those that were
18 scattered in various directions at that period, and those that
19 became intimate with and mixed with the natives by intermar-
20 riages, &c. are those which now may be supposed to go under
21 the well known name of Gukkers.
22 Arethunge Kurn, in the seventh generation from Dulleep?
23 is said to have been killed in some of those bloody en-
24 gagements ; and now his son Keerut Kurn, the eighth,
25 left the service, of the Rhahauks, and his posterity down
26 to the twenty-eighth generation followed their warlike occupa-
27 tion, and served under different masters, but always in or
28 about the Punjaub. The twenty-eighth Bija Sing or Bija
29 Ther, who is said to have lived about the year 369 of Vikra-
30 madita, is put down as the first who settled in the hills about
31 the present Noorpoor, while himself and the male part of
32 his family served under different chiefs in the Punjaub. But
33 henceforward the Rajpoots collected their families, and formed
34 a small colony at or near Noorpoor, in the hills north of Lahore,
35 F F