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failed to acquit himself of his promise, he should draw 

 curses upon himself and his family even to the fifth 

 past and succeeding generation, so that the unhappy 

 Gainprejas and the king of Lelit Pattern, seeing that 

 the nobility were disposed to render themselves subject 

 to the king of Gore ha, withdrew themselves with 

 their people to the king of Bliatgan. When the city 

 of Lelit Pat tan became subject to the king of Gore* ha, 

 he continued for some time to treat the nobility with 

 great attention, and proposed to appoint a viceroy of 

 the city from among them. Two or three months 

 afterwards, having appointed the day for making his 

 formal entrance into the city of Lelit Pattan, he made 

 use of innumerable stratagems to get into his pos- 

 session the persons of the nobility, and in the end suc- 

 ceeded. He had prevailed upon them to permit their 

 sons to remain at court as companions of his son ; he 

 had dispatched a noble of each house to Navacut, or 

 New Fort, pretending that the apprehensions he enter- 

 tained of them had prevented his making a public 

 entrance into the city ; and the remaining nobles 

 we're seized at the river without the town, where they 

 went to meet him agreeably to a prior engagement. 

 Afterwards he entered the city, made a visit to the 

 temple of Baghero adjoining to our habitation, and 

 passing in triumph thro' the city amidst immense num- 

 bers of soldiers who composed his train, entered the 

 royal palace which had been prepared for his recep- 

 tion ; in the mean time parties of his soldiers broke 

 open the houses of the nobility, seized all their effects, 

 and threw the inhabitants of the city into the utmost 

 consternation. After having caused all the nobles who 

 were in his power to be put to death, or rather their 

 bodies to be mangled in a horrid manner, he depart- 

 ed with a design of besieging B'hatgan ; and we ob- 

 tained permission, through the interest of his son, to 

 retire with all the Christians into the possessions of the 

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