1 56 EXACTIONS FROM CHUNAB SIRDARS. A. D. 1804.
2 family of every chief tliat died. It was in this year
3 that DuL Singh, the brother-in-law of Churut Singh,
4 died, when RuNJEET acquired Akulgurh* and Jum-
5 mabad by escheat, these places being held as dependen-
6 cies of the Sookurchukea Misul. DuL Singh had been
7 in disgrace some time before his death.
8 The dissensions of the four sons of Tymoor Shah,
9 HUMAYOON, MUHMOOD, SlIAH ZUMAN, and ShAH
10 SiioojAH, began at this time to produce distractions in
11 the Afghan empire, which led to the royal authority
12 being every where held in contempt. Runjeet Singh
13 was encouraged by this state of things to direct his views
14 westward, and after a Dusera, passed in more than ordi-
15 nary excess at Labor, he determined in the year 1804 to
16 seek further aggrandizement by the seizure of the depen-
17 dencies of that empire, east of the Indus. He accord-
18 ingly crossed the Ravee in October; and, having the
19 .'Aloowaia chief in attendance, moved to Ilamnugur on
20 the Chunab, and thence to Jhung, held by Ahmed Khan,
21 a chief of considerable note. The Khan made his sub-
22 mission, and bought off the invaders. Saheewal and
23 Kot Maharaja, possessions of two Balooch Moosulmans,
24 were next visited, and an acknowledgment of supre-
25 macy with presents of horses and other gifts, saved them
26 from ravage. As the season advanced preparation was
27 made to visit the neighbourhood of Mooltan, but the
28 governor Mozuffur Khan anticipated the design, and
29 averted the evil from his subjects and dependents by the
30 transmission of timely and rich presents. Relations
31 were then established with all the Moosulman chiefs and
32 • Formerly Alcepoor, a possession of the ('hitta Moosulmans.
33 irao was chaDRed by the Sikhs ou their capturiUj; the place in 1770.
34 Tho
35 name