1 APPENDIX.
2 XV
3 objection was at first offered
4 by the Sikh Sirdars, upon the
5 ground of his alleged illegiti-
6 macy, Runjeet Sing never
7 having fully acknowledged the
8 twins as his offspring.
9 The opposition, however,
10 was for the time overcome,
11 and a messenger dispatched
12 to Shere Sing with the glad
13 tidings."— Pages 26-27.
14 " The Prince Shere Sing,
15 seeing the overthrow of his
16 hopes, returned to his country
17 seat; and Dhyan Sing, with-
18 out assigning any particular
19 reason, also shortly after with-
20 drew from Lahore to his
21 own possessions, — a mountain-
22 ous country called Jummoo,
23 leaving his elder brother, the
24 Rajah Goolab Sing*, in the
25 post of Prime minister to the
26 Queen Regent." — Page 27.
27 Rajh, but he had sent off a
28 messenger to Sheer Sing who,
29 according to previous agree-
30 ment, soon made his appear-
31 ance at the capital, and then
32 his succession was opposed by
33 the Sindiawalla and other
34 Sirdars, and it was not over-
35 come.
36 Note.
37 Sheer Sing and Rajah De-
38 han Sing's withdrawal from
39 Lahore was a preconcerted
40 measure, and even the elder
41 Rajah was in the secret. It
42 was Dehan Sing, and Goo-
43 laub Sing's policy to send
44 Sheer Sing away, while their
45 minions, particularly those of
46 Rajah Dehan Sing', in his
47 name instigated by promises of
48 great reward the Sikh troops,
49 to act the part they afterwards
50 did, on the return of Sheer
51 Sing.
52 Note.
53 " In the meantime, Ajeet Ajeet Sing did not stab
54 Sing, after the committal of Dehan Sing-, nor was his head
55 this atrocity, directed his steps cut off; but when he was killed
56 towards the city ; but meeting his body was thrown into the
57 the Rajah Dhyan Sing in his pit of the gun foundry. Dehan
58 carriage, he dismounted and Sing was not in his carri-
59 got into it, with the intention age, but on horseback, and
60 of returning together. It ap- Ajeet Sing did not cause the
61 pears that a dispute took place, whole of Sheer Sing's family
62 between them, respecting the to be murdered; Shah Dehu,
63 future form of Government, the infant alluded to, I suppose,
64 but which was quickly termi- is, still alive, though he was
65 nated by Ajeet Sing's stabbing rather more than one day old.
66 the Rajah to the heart. He afterwards caused his head to be
67 cut ojf, and sent it to his son, the Rajah Heera Sing, of whom