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had negotiated through Khan Dauran, the second bakhshi, instead 
of through the wazir, When Khan Dauran had reaped all the 
this tardy application gave a splendid opening for avenging the 
idee neglect. Nothing of the sort happened. ‘Abdullah 
a 
still more codectal. ‘the Wazir spp no pre We need 
em nag Ricceiid that Surman should style ri “ the Good 
Vis 
The Surman diaries also yield an aapsiclens that ‘Abdullah 
‘Khan was not quite strict in the observance of Muhammadan 
rules. ‘‘ Hearing the Visier drinks,” ‘es envoys sent him a 
handsome present of Shiraz wine and brandy; and we are not 
es of its being returned with indignaon and porta as an 
t. 
et pee entry i in the Surman diaries agg ‘Abdullah Khin’s 
-kind_ hea: At the envoys’ last audience Farrukhsiyar refused 
to pice oe departure of William Hamilton, the surgeon who 
had attended him in ave illness. In this emergency they invoked 
the Rie of ‘Abdull ah Khan, and “the good visier readily offered 
to use his utmost endeavours.” He wrote a very pathetic address 
‘to! His Majesty, in which an imaginary wife and children in 
‘Scotland were introduced to heighten the effect. On Hamilton's 
promising a speedy return to en Farrukhsiyar yielded a 
reluctant consent to his departure. 
he Barhah Sayyids have crite almost to our own aay 
more or less Indian in their practices. Thus it is no surpri 
to learn from a contemporary historian that ‘Abdullah Khan 
observed the Basant or spring festival, and the Holi powder- 
wing usual among Hindas. In another direction he dis- 
pared ce sega Anand Ram, Makhlis, noticed that every 
e he gave public audience, two men “called majamrah-gardan, 
or F ceeoeta aes stood at the head of his carpet swinging 
silver censers full of smoking rue-seed. This was done to avert 
the Evil Eye. We have also seen in the course of our narrative 
that = was more of a soldier ner an administrator ; and that 
he was a voluptuary who in time of peace was indolent and 
negligent of business. He left his “affairs too much in the hands 
of his Hindi man-of- business, Ratn Cand.3 
One of the Wazir’s deeds of merit was the construction of a 

-cos GiBaW: Vilson’s ‘Early Annals,” xo. II, , Part 2, ‘* The Surman Diary,” 
pp. otis eT 142, 143, 200, 

war Khan, entry of 3rd Babi, IL 1132 H.; Anand Ram, Mukhlis, 
Mirat- oe fol. 248¢,” Herklo “ Qanoone Islam,” Glossary, p. Ixxxiv, 
Says the is that of Mahnd? (Lawsonia inermis), mixed with ben- 
zoin or mastord-sced. 
