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2 RuNJEET Singh retarned to Labor in April, 1820,
3 bringing witb bim a horse of bigb repute, tbat be bad
4 extorted from Hafiz Ahmed Khan of Munkera. Many
5 subsequent enlerprizes were undertaken for similar
6 animals ; the love for tbem, and the desire to possess all
7 of any repute for excellence, being a growing passion
8 carried by the Sikh chief almost to folly. The horse
9 acquired in this instance, bore the name o( Soofed- Puree.
10 In Kashmeer the troops were employed in petty opera-
11 tions against isolated chiefs. One of these. Sheer
12 ZuMAN Khan of Gundgurh, having risen in rebellion.
13 Ram Dyal, the governor's son, and the hopeful grand-
14 son of the late Dewan Mohkum Chund, was employed
15 against him, and unfortunately met his death in an action,
16 that took place, which was a source of deep regret to
17 Runjeet Singh, no less than to his father Motee
18 Ram, and of general sympathy with all ; for he was
19 a rising officer of great promise in the Sikh army.
20 The Raja of Rajaoree, Agur Khan, was in the
21 course of May seized, and made prisoner by Goo-
22 lab Singh, brother of Meean Dheean Singh, the
23 Deohreeivala, or Lord of Privy Chambers, of the
24 Labor Court. For this service, the family obtained
25 in Jageer, the principality of Jummoo, with which
26 they had long been connected. In June, the troops
27 employed in Kashmeer, having suffered much from sick-
28 ness, were relieved, and the Governor Motee Ram,
29 who was of pacific devotional habits, was changed for
30 a more martial chief in the person of Huree Singh
31 Nalooa, a Sikh Jageerdar, who had killed a tiger single-
32 handed on horse-back, with the sacrifice, however, of
33 his horse.