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INDIA BEYOND THE GANGES. 



Aracan. All this might have been executed, had not the defign been dif- 



covered. The unhappy Sujab attempted to efcape towards Pegu\ 

 he was loon overtaken. His Ion, fultan Batique, defended hini- 

 fclt with a courage worthy of his birth, till overpowered with, 

 numbers, and fainting under his wounds, he was feized, and 

 with his two little, brothers, his fillers, and his motlier, car- 

 ried away. As to Sujab, he, with one woman, an eunuch, and 

 two other perfons, in afcending a mountain, was knocked down 

 with a ftone by his purfuers. The eunuch bound up his wounded 

 head with a turban, and they both efcaped into the woods. 

 Many relations were fpread refpe6ling this event. In general he 

 was fuppofed to have died either famifhed with hunger, or 

 fallen a prey to wild beafts. Mr. Dalrymple had picked up a 

 ftory, that Sujab efcaped to Soolo^ an ille between that of Borneo 

 and Magindanao^ where he long led an eremitical life ; that he 

 died there, and that a tomb Avas ere6ted over his grave, to this 

 day an objc6l of veneration with the Mahometajis. 

 . The tragical relation does not end here. Sultan Banque, and 

 other fugitives who were brought back, were at firft trented 

 with a tolerable degree of lenity; the king even took to wife 

 one of Sujab's daughters. This did not prevent Bafique and his 

 companions from entering into another confpiracy, which was 

 deteded. The king of ^r^f^« determined to root out this ill- 

 fated family ; he caufed the heads of the men to be cut off with 

 blunt axes, the women to be immured, and ftarved to death; the 

 lady alone whom he had honored with his bed was faved. 



The great quantity of gold and diamonds which had been 

 brought into the country by Sujaby proved the caufe of dreadful 



wars 



