﻿OF ASAM. 185 



tioa afforded an opportunity of displaying additional 

 virtues, and of closing that life with heroic fortitude 

 which he had always hazarded in the field with mar- 

 tial spirit. His name and titles were, Mir Jumhh, 

 Moazzim Khan, Khans Khanan, Sipahi Salar, 



REMARK. 



The preceding account of the Asamians, who arc 

 probably superior in all respects to the Moguls* exhi- 

 bits a specimen of the black malignity and frantic in- 

 tolerance with which it was usual, in the rei»n of 

 Aurangztb, to treat all those whom the crafty, cruel 

 and avaricious emperor was pleased to condemn as 

 infidels and barbarians. 



