1 116 BOOTY RECOVERED FROM THE ARMY. A. D. 1018.
2 denly carried, MozuFFUR Khan with his four sons,
3 and household, made a final stand at the door of his
4 residence, but fell covered with wounds. Two of
5 his sons. Shah Nuwaz Khan and Huq Nuwaz,
6 were also killed on the spot, and a third was left badly
7 wounded. Surfuraz Khan, the fourth, who had been
8 vested by his father with the government under himself,
9 was found in a vault or cellar, and taken prisoner. The
10 citadel was now sacked, and an immense booty fell to
11 the troops engaged in the assault. Runjeet Singh,
12 however, was not content, that his treasury should be
13 defrauded of the wealth known to have been laid up in
14 this citadel, and which he had long coveted and hoped
15 to have secured by a surrender on capitulation. lie
16 accordingly issued peremptory orders for the immediate
17 return of the whole army to Labor, with exception to a
18 detachment, under Jodh Singh Kulseea, of sufficient
19 strength to hold the place, and conduct the local adminis-
20 tration. SooKH Dyal, who had taken the farm of Jhung,
21 as above stated, was nominated to the civil government.
22 Upon the arrival of the army at Labor, proclamation was
23 made, that the plunder of Moollan was the property
24 of the State, and all soldiers, officers, or Jageerdars,
25 possessing any article of spoil, or any money obtained
26 in the sack of the fort, were ordered to bring the
27 same in, and to account for the whole to the treasury,
28 under penalty of heavy mulct or confinement. It affords
29 a strong proof of the awe, in which the power and sources
30 of information possessed by Runjeet Singh, were
31 held by his troops, that this order produced no outrage
32 or general resistance. Most of the spoil was traced and
33 collected for the treasury, and, though rendered up with
34 much discontent, and with many efforts at concealment,