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fought his best and. lost iis life; while his brother escaped 
for a time, only to be made a priso ner a few days afterwards. 
The confusion lasted ten to twelve hours, and during this 
time countless treasure was een and much property was 
any sudden disaster. When the igre was done, not a trace 
heel-rope or a tent peg onthat ground, Everything had been 
burnt or carried off, and the men had disappeare 
Mubammad Amin Khan held it wiser not to check the plun- 
dering, in which both friends and foes were busily ce for 
ar 
tion the mone changers! cite most or Husain ‘Ali “Khan 
equipage, and “niet said to conta ai in a kror of rupees, had serived 
were ‘still on the x road, were saved and confiscated to His 
Majesty’s use! 
~ Rajah Ratn Cand, Banya, who was much more hated by the 
general public than the Sayyids themselves, knew not which way 
to turn. The armed array of his foes barred his flight, and he 
was not eget man to take the field and meet blow by blow. As 
the sayin : rancing ass and a shopkeeper are equally 
worthless.” 2 He told the beads of his rosary 8 with one hand and 
with the other used his handkerchief to wipe the tears from his 
eyes. ‘Abd-nr-rahman Khanand other Afghans of Sihrind offered 
to rescue him, s»ying: * Mount, Mount.” He refused with idle 
phrases. All that he could do was to write a hurried note of a 
line or two to Sayyid ‘Abdullah Khan, and send it off by acamel- 
rider. Soon Rajah Dya Ram,‘ the agent of Mnhammad Amin 
Khan, came for him and he submitted at once. On the way some 
ugha Is and low fellows from the bazars surrounded his palan- 
quin, re him out, beat, cuffed, and kicked him, and tore his 

1 Khafi Khan IT. 904. 905, 908, 909, 91 10, Ghnlim ‘Ali Khan, Mugad 
damah, #74. Khishhal Cand, — MS. 495, £, 10098, "10108, Yabya 
Khan, 1298, a 16.8, Shia Die: 
2 Kabgi r-na-bn kar-i-b snc I am not snre of the reading or the 
meaning; in vane esse it is meant to be depreciato 
3 nsed is samarni, “a small pekaie or string of beads ” 
sey 
4 See Anand Ram Moukhlis’s “ Chamanistan,” for a defence of this act of 

