194 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [May, 1912. 
A chancellor and comptroller of the exchequer, who had 
turned a traitor, was twice pardoned by him, and reinstated 
into his office; but, the third time he had him han nged,! en 
he was near the river Behét [Jhelam], they brought him 
twelve men who had fled from his camp to join the ranks 
‘Sire,’’ said the prisoner, ‘‘ pardon me if I am so hoarse. 
Those men of the bailiff dragged me along so roughly and 
hurriedly under a broiling sun, and gave me so many fisticuffs, 
that plenty of dust has go ot into my throat, and I am so 
hoarse that I cannot sing.’’ This found so much favour with 
the King that he pardoned him and told not to behead any 
of them, but to keep them prisoners until he should get their 
crimes examined into.” 
He can neither read nor write, but he is very curious, 
and has always men of letters about him, whom br gets to 
pene ie sundry pion and tell him various storie 
1 The allusion must be to ‘Khwajah § Shah Mansi of Shiraz. Mon- 
serrate relates how he was three times found to have communicated 
mt 
serrate’s Mongol. Leg. Comm.—‘‘ Abul Fazl LAISOPane. Ti. 343) “ 
that se was hanged on a tree near ‘Sarai Kot Kachwa aha. 
e place 
afterwards discovered that the mgt hess etters were 
forgery, and that Mansiir wasinnocent. Cf. phe s Akbar (transl.) II, 
25; also Badayiini vore* transl.), pp. 300, 303.” (Note by H. 
Beveridge.) According to the T'abakat-i-Akbari, the Sarai of Bad was 15 
kes from Fathpir. Cohinase with Blochmann’s notes in en! I, 430-432. 
