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2 (chair), there was a number of bags filled with gold and silver.
3 He thought probably to ransom his life with it, but he was
4 mistaken. The Ranee and Mungela, with many slave-girls,
5 followed him on several elephants. When the train arrived
6 at the camp, the soldiers first took Dulleep Sing from his
7 lap, and sent him with his mother in a royal tent, erected on
8 purpose for the court. Scarcely was that done, when they
9 fired at Jewahir Sing, without any further ceremony, and the
10 same fate awaited two of his attendants, named Baba-Ruttun-
11 Sing and Chetta Payah. This catastrophe made such a deep
12 impression on the Ranee and Mungela, that for many weeks
13 they were quite inconsolable ; they appeared before the public
14 for several days with their hair loose, as if mad. Every
15 morning they went from the fortress on foot, crossing the pret
16 (place for exercising soldiers) in the garden where Jewahir
17 Sing had been burnt with both his companions and five living
18 women ; there they gave free vent to their tears, to relieve
19 their oppressed hearts.
20 In the year 1845 the cholera arrived at Lahore, having-
21 travelled through Turkistan and Cabul. At the same time
22 Gholab Sing was brought from J ummoo, a town in the moun-
23 tains, a prisoner to Lahore, and he might have congratulated
24 himself on having escaped the persecution of Jewahir Sing ; for
25 it was well known that at different periods attempts had been made
26 upon his life. The reason of Jewahir’s hatred against him was
27 that Gholab Sing had persuaded a great number of the Sikh
28 troops to follow his banner, to whom he trusted himself. He
29 was brought from Jummoo to Lahore, in consequence of Ins
30 resistance to some government exactions. It is a remarkable
31 fact, that Gholab Sing, in spite of his fortress being blockaded
32 by numerous troops, was bold enough to give an order to murder
33 on the road the delegates of the Sikhs whom he himself had
34 despatched with the subsidies requested by the government, as
35 if he had regretted performing his duty.
36 During his struggles in the mountains, Runjoor Sing, well
37 known to the English as the commander of the Sikh troops at
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