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2 family interest at Court, where they jointly held the much
3 coveted office of Doudeewan or keeper of the King's gate,
4 a title and office almost synonimous with that of Wuzeer,
5 Goolauboo set off for Jummoo, assuring the Maharajh that
6 he would never return but to lay the head of the terrible
7 Deedoo at his master's feet. To enhance the value of their
8 prospective loyality, the brothers gave it out that the free-booter,
9 whom out of regard to their sovereign they were about to put
10 down, was their near relative. Goolauboo or, as he was then
11 called, in virtue of his Rajpoot descent, Meean Goolauboo,
12 took with him to Jummoo five or six hundred men to reinforce
13 the body of two thousand strong, which were in garrison
14 there already. He did not venture, however, to rely on his
15 military strength for the capture of the formidable Deedoo and
16 the destruction of his armed bands. He put in practice all his
17 wiles and spent large sums in bribes, and by such means suc-
18 ceeded so well that ere long he was able to return to Lahore,
19 on the condition which he had himself imposed, that of laying
20 the outlaw's head at the feet of the Maharajh. After re-
21 ceiving large rewards of money and jaghires for himself and
22 family, in acknowledgment of the service he had done to the
23 state, Goolauboo was sent off again with about fifteen hun-
24 dred horse to subdue the Kuss country about Kistowur and to
25 the north of Jummoo. In 1817, he returned from this expedi-
26 tion in which he had been highly successful and was of course
27 lavishly rewarded for his services. It must be observed
28 here that the younger brothers, from their good looks and
29 more compliant disposition, were personally more in favour
30 with the Maharajh than was Meean Goolauboo. On them Run-
31 jeet was desirous of confering the title and dignity of Rajah, but
32 they, well tutored in the part they were to play, declared that
33 they could not consent to receive honours, which were with-
34 held from Goolauboo, their wise, brave and well-deserving
35 elder brother. They prayed, therefore, of their kind master,