1 SIEGE OF LAHORE. 5?
2 witness his entry into the city. The soldiers received him with
3 lond acclamation, and while Shere Sing followed at some
4 distance, Dehan Sing* entered Lahore among a crowd of Seik
5 troops, who saw in his arrival the hope of further hribes and
6 presents. The Rajah flattered and pleased the soldiers around
7 him by expressing his sorrow at their loss, and the small return,
8 they were likely to obtain, assuring them that had his advice
9 been taken not a drop of blood would have been spilt, while their
10 object would have been obtained in one short day. He said,
11 however, that if they would not be too hasty now, he had
12 the strongest hopes of being able to put every thing to rights
13 yet, and of seeing every man of them well rewarded for his
14 loyalty and devotion. By these arts, Dehan Sing*, before
15 two hours had elapsed from the time of his arrival had worked
16 himself into the confidence of the Seiks so far that a cessation
17 of hostilities ensued, and every one looked upon him as the
18 man by whose friendly mediation alone peace could be restored.
19 Negotiations began that same evening, and in the morning of the
20 seventh day since the commencement of the siege the Seiks found,
21 as they had not done before, time and opportunity to collect and
22 burn or bury their dead, and to clear the city and the Hazooree
23 Bagh of the carcases of cattle and horses with which they were
24 strewn. The return showed that on the side of the besiegers 4786
25 men, 610 horses, and 320 bullocks had been killed* while the
26 loss of the garrison did not in killed and wounded exceed 130
27 men. During these seven days, the Dogras of the garrison
28 had received from Goolaub Sing as presents from himself, and
29 Chund Kour, various sums amounting in the aggregate to
30 about one hundred rupees for each private soldier, the officers
31 being rewarded still more liberally.
32 One or two other incidents which occurred during this short
33 and vigorous siege may be here mentioned. The Seiks, under
34 the pretence of procuring wood for the erection of batteries,
35 or out-works for the protection of their guns, dismantled nearly
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