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2 Singh stormed Mooltan® and extended his power over the whole ° 14.116.
3 southern part of the Punjab, and in the same year marched a
4 force across the Indus, and made himself master of Peshawer.* ‘14-119
5 In 1819, the Maharaja of the Sikhs, as Runjeet styled himself,
6 conquered the Derajat, on the west side of the Indus,5 and a a
7 Kashmir.® In 1831, at Rooper, on the Sutlej, an interview took leh rd
8 place, amidst great pomp and display, between Runjeet Singh and
9 Lord Auckland, the Governor-General of British India, and a
10 Paper was placed in the hands of the Sikh ruler promising him
11 the perpetual amity of the British government. In 1835, Gulab
12 Singh, a vassal of the Maharaja, reduced to subjection the exten-
13 Sive hill state of Ladakh, or Middle Tibet,’ and five or sik years 7 Id. iv. 140,
14 later, the same chieftain subdued Bulti,’ or Little Tibet. In 1838 © Vigne, Kashmir,
15 Runjeet Singh became a party in the tripartite treaty with the “"
16 British government and Shah Shooja, and succeeded in obtaining
17 8 stipulation securing to him the right to all the territories which
18 he then possessed on both sides of the Indus.? Runjeet Singh See Ga iebk
19 died in July 1839, and was succeeded by his son Kuruck Singh. on Sinde, 6.
20 The latter died in 1840, and, as was generally believed, from the
21 effects of poison. Before the funeral ceremonies for this prince
22 were fully ended, his son aud successor was killed by the falling
23 of a beam—a catastrophe not accidental, though intended to have
24 the appearance of being so, A competition for the vacant throne
25 then ensued between the widow of Kuruck Singh and a reputed
26 son of Runjeet Singh, named Sheer Singh, but who, though born
27 in wedlock, had been subjected by his alleged father to the stigma
28 of illegitimacy. Shere Singh finally succeeded, but his triumph
29 was of short duration. Near the close of the year 1843 he was
30 assassinated ; and this was followed by a widely-spread, frantic,
31 and sanguinary anarchy, which at this present time (1844) en-
32 Sages the anxious attention of the Anglo-Indian government.
33 PUNJAN GOOSHT, in Western Afghanistan, a range of E.1C. Ms. Doc.
34 Mountains bounding the upper part of the valley of Furrah on
35 the cast. They are situate to the left of the route from Kanda-
36 har to Herat, and about two hundred and twenty miles north-
37 west of the former town. They rise to a considerable height
38 from the surrounding country, and as the latter is very elevated,
39 their total altitude above the level of the sea is, probably, not less
40 than 12,000 feet. Lat. 32° 30’, long. 63° 5’.
41 PUNJGOOR,' in Beloochistan, a town of Mekran, the '5.1.c. Ms. Doc. a