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2 while Uttur Sing* shewed, as a confinement. He was a slight ,
3 soldier, much 01 the spirit of thin, mean-looking man, with a
4 his elder brother, Boodh Singh, grey beard, and marked with
5 he wanted the political bold- the smallpox. — (Editor.)
6 ness requisite for a Punjaub Leader and Reformer ; he wanted
7 also tact, and never was worse advised than when he took
8 refuge within the Sutlej, and gave his enemies the oppor-
9 tunity of placarding him as sold to the Feringhees. In person
10 Uttur Sing* was middle sized, of stout build, and of plain
11 unmarked cou?itenance." — Page 495.
12 Note.
13 " A writer in Blackwood's The Fakeer certainly was
14 Magazine includes the Fakeer at least aware that some revo-
15 Azeezoodeen among the con- lution was about to take place,
16 spirators against Sheer Singh; as he wrote to his son, Cherag-
17 but he had no concern in the oo-deen, the Vakeel at Feroz-
18 atrocity. The Fakeer was an pore, -telling him as much. —
19 able, and honest, but, at the (Editor.)
20 same time a timid Councillor of Runjeet Singh." — Page 496.
21 Note.
22 "We have stated that the Uttur Sing never went to
23 Scindawallas had been favour- Lahore, and never would ac-
24 ably received at Lahore by all knowledge Sheer Sing. Ajeet
25 parties. The Maharajah doubt- Sing went, as I have stated
26 less hoping that his benevo- elsewhere, on purpose to put
27 lences would gain their hearts, Sheer Sing to death. — (Edi-
28 and the Rajahs hoping to make tor.)
29 tools of them against the Ma- Note.
30 harajah. Sheer Singh was
31 naturally open-hearted and Dulleep Sing never was
32 indolent. He was content to taken to Jummoo.
33 be monarch and to leave the reins of Government with the
34 Rajahs, if they gave him his will in the patronage and promo-
35 tion of his favorites, and did not otherwise molest him or dis-
36 turb him in his fiddling and hunting pursuits. But he soon
37 began to find himself watched ; to perceive the fate that sys-
38 tematically befel his friends and proteges, and at last he heard
39 that Dulleep Singh, a child of eight or nine years of age,
40 recognized by Runjeet Sing as his son, though in full knowledge
41 of his not being so, was at Jummoo. His fears awakened,
42 he made various efforts to throw off the yoke. For a time
43 Dhyan Sing, affecting disgust, would retire from the court,