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2 to Lahore lie described it in terms of glowing eulogy to his
3 master Runjeet Sing. Hearing of this, Goolauboo, then about
4 nineteen years of age, taking with him his next brother
5 Dehanoo, who was ten, left Jummoo and hastened to Lahore
6 in the full hope of building his fortunes on the favor of the
7 Seik Maharajh. Great was the disappointment of the am-
8 bitious stripling on finding that after idling away three months
9 in the vain expectation of procuring an introduction to the
10 great chief through the favor of Faquir Azeez-oodeen, he had
11 nothing for it but to return to Jummoo as he came. And now
12 leaving his young brother in charge of their father, Goolauboo
13 went to seek service in some other quarter. In this pursuit
14 he was so far successful, that in the course of the year 1808,
15 he obtained military employment, on three rupees a month and
16 rations, under the Killadar of Munjela, a fort On the west side of
17 the Jhelum. He did not, however, stay here long, being compelled
18 through some quarrel with his fellow soldiers to leave the fort;
19 upon which he took service under Sultan Khan of Bheembur*
20 He was now stationed in the fort of Kotelee, about fourteen
21 or fifteen miles to the west of Minore. Hence, however, he
22 was ere long compelled to remove owing to some dispute with
23 his chief. He now returned disappointed and destitute to
24 his family and their humble home at Ismailpore, where he re-
25 mained until the year 1811.
26 The two elder brothers married while residing at Ismailpore,
27 being supplied with the pecuniary means of doing so by a
28 Hindoo named Doolo to whom they were consequently deeply
29 in debt. However, in the beginning of 1811, this man was
30 again called on by Kussour Sing to advance money sufficient
31 to enable his two eldest sons to purchase horses and outfit,
32 that they might proceed to Lahore, to enter the Seik service
33 as Gorechars under Runjeet Sing. Doolo, though with but
34 faint hope of repayment, cheerfully advanced the required
35 sum, and, provided with credentials from Meean Mota to
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