1 98 THE KOH-I-NOOR DIAMOND EXTORTED. A. D. 1813.
2 waited on the Sbah, with a few attendants to receive it.
3 He was received by the exiled Prince with much digoir
4 ty, and both being seated, a pause and solemn silence
5 ensued, which continued for nearly an hour. Runjeet
6 then getting impatient, whispered to one of his atten-
7 dants to remind the Shah of the object of his coming.
8 No answer was returned, but the Shah with his eyes
9 made the signal to an Eunuch, who retired, and brought
10 in a small roll, which he set down on the carpet at equal
11 distance between the Chiefs. Runjeet desired Bhoo-
12 ANEE Das to unfold the roll, when the diamond was
13 exhibited, and recognized, and the Sikh immediately
14 retired with his prize in hand. The Shah was now left
15 more at liberty, his guard being withdrawn : a letter was,
16 however, intercepted a few days after from Kazee Sheer
17 MoHUMMUD, one of his followers, toMoHUMMUoUzEEM
18 Khan, the new governor of Kashmeer, containing a pro-
19 position to assassinate Runjeet Singh, and advising the
20 Vuzeer Futeh Khan to make a simultaneous attack on
21 Labor. The Sikh sent for one of the Princes of the exiled
22 family, and through him transmitted the letter, with its
23 writer, who had been seized, to the Shah. The Ex-king
24 sent both back, begging of RuNJEET Singh to punish
25 the Kazee as he might deem fitting. In the idea, that
26 a confession of the Shah's privity would be extorted, the
27 guard on duty were desired to lay on with their shoes
28 and with sticks. The Kazee fainted under the blows he
29 received, declaring, however, to the last, his master's
30 entire innocence, be was then committed to prison, whence
31 nearly an iuch and a half in length, and an inch wide, aiid rises half an
32 inch from its gold setting. Nauir Shah robbed the Dehlee family of it,
33 and Ahmed Shah Abdalee got possession of it in the pillage of Nadir
34 Shah's touts after Lis ussussiuation.