142 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
complying with and since he has come down something in his 
demand and says he will be contented with a visit without 
giving a surpace and talks of the presents being Rs. 2000 and 
our Vacqueel tells us some of his under officers say they believe 
Rs. 1500 will do. The Chief yesterday offered a vissit and 
500 Rs. which he refused with disdain. 
10th August. Sciadradge Caun having come down in his 
demands and offering to receive a vissit to be attended with 
the charge of a present of 900 Rs. to him and 200 Rs. among 
is officers * * * * %* * ae 
and he having been very Importunate and Troublesome even 
to the impeding some of our Business we think it our Honble ~ 
Masters Interest to satisfy him. 
18th August. Agreed that we send away immediately on 
a Budjerow that is at our gate! to be hired * * * 
under the guard of Serjeant Everatt Cooke and 3 soldiers. 
A letter from Jugdea mentions Aga Bakar® as Faujdar 
there at this time. 
27th August. The 24th instant, the Nabob sent Sally 
Mahmud to us with a copy of a Purwanna he said was come 
some years since found on digging in his compound 2 Jars of 
gold Moores § which he had kept to his own use instead of pay- 
ent the Nabob for answer 
* * 
p * 
The Facqueer* that had lived for many yeares on our wharf 
‘ It is not quite clear wh i t i 
what re oo Ks where this was, but probably it was at the 
? He was Naib at Jugdea in 1752 (see Lon 
a g). Scrafton says he was 
Governor of Chittagong later. He was killed in Dacca as a sobailt of the 
ination of the Nawab Hossainuddin in 1754 by his son Aga Sadak 
(see rom. Riaz and Sairul Mutagerin). 
mohars. 
4 Cf. the incident of the Sufi in the first instalment. 
