1 Vlll APPENDIX.
2 suspected by her husband, and she had, in consequence, been
3 living with her mother, Suda Koonwur. The report ran, that
4 the boys were procured by the latter from a Carpenter and
5 Weaver, and were produced as born to her daughter, the public
6 having- for some time previously been prepared for the birth by
7 reports circulated of Mehtab being with child." — Chap. 4, p. 63.
8 " Suda Koonwur alone was This corroborates what I
9 not present ; indisposition was have stated that Runjeet would
10 assigned as the reason of her not even acknowledge Sheer
11 non-attendance on the occa- Sing as his son. — (Editor.)
12 sion ; but her dissatisfaction at the failure of an attempt to
13 procure from JRunjeet Sing, her son-in-laiv, the public acknow-
14 ledgement during these ceremonies, of the two boys she had
15 brought up as twins born to her daughter, was generally be-
16 lieved to be the true cause of her absence." — Chap. 6, p. 90.
17 From the JPunjaub Adventurer.
18 Note.
19 "Dyan Sing, though slightly Dehan Sing was not in the
20 lame, is a fine looking man, of least lame, and so active that
21 a noble presence, polite and I have seen him leap over an
22 affable, of winning manners object six feet high, and he
23 and modest speech. He sits was one of the best and quick-
24 cm the ground, and rather be- est writers I ever saw.
25 hind the Maharajah, while the others, his inferiors in every way,
26 are seated on chairs. The Raja decidedly is, next to his
27 master, the ablest man in the Punjab ; though like him so
28 illiterate a sscarcely to be able to sign his name." — Chap. 2, p. 17.
29 Note.
30 " Kharak Sing, the eldest, is I never considered Kurruck
31 an imbecile, and effects the Sing as imbecile until he was
32 religieux. Sher Sing, the se- made so by the poison given
33 cond is far from clever, but he him. Tara Sing cannot I think
34 is prudent ; he is fond of imi- be called a Vagabond but a
35 tating the Military and Euro- simpleton or fool. I have be-
36 peans. Tara Sing, the third, fore stated that Sheer Sing was
37 is a dissolute Vagabond, lead- the son of a washerman and
38 ing the most reckless life in the Tara Sing the son of a carpen-
39 common bazars. None of them ter.
40 appear much at Durbars, and the two latter are known not to
41 be really sons of the Maharajah, who perhaps keeps quiet the
42 mystery of their birth, as a check against any possible designs
43 of his acknowledged son. — Chap. 2, p. 22.