1 PABHI. 199
2 Singh considered his end very nigh. Golab
3 Singh, taking advantage of the Mahataja’s
4 declining health, had been actively exerting
5 himself of late to prepare the way for the esta-
6 blishment of his own authority in that quarter ;
7 which having come to the ears of Ranjeet
8 Singh, he thought it prudent to confer it at
9 once on his son, which gave great offence to
10 the Jammoo family, and they began to intrigue
11 with Nao Nibal Singh for the subversion of
12 Kharak Singh’s power, whom they knew to be
13 popular with the Sikhs, as the only legitimate
14 heir to the throne.*
15 12¢h,—Pabhi, a small village, situated on
16 a rising and sloping ground; supplies pro-
17 curable, and the encamping ground exten-
18 sive, and abundance of good water. The de-
19 scription of the road the same as yesterday.f
20 * Golab Singh’s ambition has at length been -gratified
21 by the almost total destruction of the family of his bene-
22 factor and the ruin of the Sikh government to secure his
23 own power.
24 { “The country, during the latter portion of our morn-
25 ing’s march, exhibited many more traces of cultivation
26 than we have hitherto seen in the valley, but the graves