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war Khan zemindar and other zemindars of the nawicara, and 

 Haiat Khan jama' dan with the I^awwab's soldiers, who had 

 accompanied hira to the conquest of Sondip, were ordered to 

 go to Noakhali, join Farhad Khan and Captain Moor and other 

 Feringi pirates who had come from Chatgaon and entered the 

 Imperial service, and then proceed on land and sea as the van of 

 Buzurg Ummed Khan's army- 



*Askai^ Khan, who had been posted to Ghoraghat, returned 



opportunely and was stationed at Dacca.^ 



The Imperial fleet under Ibn Husain consisted of 288 ships, 

 as described below : 



Ghurob ... 21 



Salh ... 3 



Kusa .„ 157 



Jalba -.. 96 



Bachari ... 2 



Parenda ... 6 



[Not specified 3] 



288 



NawwIb's Vigorous Exertions- 



Before this Mir Murtaza had collected many axes at Dacca. 

 ' " " '' ' " 5 had been brought by issuing 



parwSnahs^ so that several thousands of them had been collected. 

 These were sent with the expedition for clearing the jungle. 

 Every day the Nawwab wrote to the officers of the expedition 

 letters full of plans and advice, and inquiries addressed to the 

 Elian about the condition of the enemv and the state of the road- 



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Dacca] the Nawwab 



stayed outside [the harem] till noon and again from the time of 

 the 'asar prayer to one prahar of the night, and supervised this 

 business. Even when he was in the harem, if any good plan 

 struck him, he at once sent word to the officers to carry it out. 

 Muhammad Khalil was ordered to keep him daily informed of 

 the occurrences. Shaikh Mubarak, an experienced and trusted 

 servant, appointed to command [160, a] the Nawwab' s retainers 



Ummed Khan, was ordered to report all 

 the daily events, great and small, to the Nawwab, and give the 

 Khan every advice that he considered fit. 



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Feeding the Army, 



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of all the grain that hejpSrfs brought into Dacca should be sent to 

 the army. To the faujdars of all parts of Bengal ara-ent varwSnahs 



The 'Ilamglmdmah, p. 948, adds : " Kamal, a former Arracanese king's 

 son, who m Shah Jahan's reiga had fled to Dacca from the oppression of the 

 present king was ordered to accompany Mir Murtaza with a band of the 

 maghs who lived at Dacca, on the assurance that he would be made chief 

 offprint „■ -1 . ? (Ptrroa-nafi), inviting submiasioa to the Mughals and 

 ?h«^«! conchatory favours from the Imperial Government, was ^ 

 the governor of Chatgaon and sent to him with one of the Maghs ' 



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