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2 part !" " Pooh" said she " drop the affair and let him take
3 away the children, we will have plenty more." — However the
4 husband paid about 40 rupees as a Nuzzur and got the children,
5 and he now treats them as his own.
6 3. Runjeet Sing had a little Harkarah who was remarkable
7 not only for his lean body and thin leg's but for his pedestrian
8 powers. He would go from Lahore to Peshawar, and return in
9 fourteen days. For these exploits he was called Challee Koa,
10 which signified him capable of walking forty coss, sixty miles,
11 a day. This man was married to a young woman by the parti-
12 cular desire of Runjeet Sing himself: — but, about five months
13 after their marriage she was delivered of a son — when Challee
14 Koa went to complain to Runjeet, and his own words were
15 " They call me Challee Koa, and I thought no one could go
16 swifter than myself, but my wife has beat me completely."
17 4. Chund Kour the mother of No Nehal Sing, was notorious for
18 her loose conduct, even during the life time of Runjeet, who
19 more than once imprisoned some of her paramours. A Frash
20 or Boag-, well known by the name of Minoo (from his large
21 eyes) was once imprisoned and even heavily ironed in a bastion
22 that stood in the city outside the Hazooree Baug. General
23 Ventura strongly interceded with Runjeet for his release ; and I
24 believe he would have been pardoned by his means, had it not
25 been found out that Chund Kour actually was in the habit of
26 paying him visits in the disguise of a Kunchenee, or dancing girl
27 of the town, even while thus in close confinement. She was
28 however the means of his being released at last, by her publicly
29 remonstrating with Runjeet himself — and actually wishing to
30 convince him of the imbecility of his son, and making other
31 shameful exposures not at a 'private Durbar, but in the presence
32 of eight or ten of the chief Sirdars of the country — where she
33 even threatened to murder herself and her son should her lover
34 Minoo not be released. It is well known that had No Nehal
35 Singh lived but for a few months longer he would have
36 murdered her. The manner in which she has been known
37 to send written Purwanahs, or orders to any person she might
38 take a fancy to, to present themselves at her own private apart-
39 ment was notorious.
40 From Prinsep's Life of Bunjeet Sing.
41 Note.
42 "The family boasts of no an- His name was not Deesoobut
43 tiquity, the first of whom any Budda, and on his becoming