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drawn sword. The latter was a little lame, from the effects of a 

 wound received in Persia, and generally had a long straight sword 

 with him, on which he leant. In trying to ward off his brother's at- 

 tack, he accidentally gave him a thrust, which proved his death-wound. 

 Meer Nasseer Khan was greatly shocked at this calamity, and after- 

 wards his mind took a serious turn, and he fitted out an expedition 

 to Mecca to make atonement for his crime. 



When Meer Mahommed Nasseer Khan obtained the Khanship of 



Kalat, he was twenty-four years of age: and he 



Meer Nasseer Khan. , , . . .-inn **■ « ■** i i 



ruled it is said fifty years. Mulla Mahommed 



Haizat, as may be supposed, became all-powerful ; so much so, that 



Bibee Miriam, the Khan's mother, is said to have taken her son to 



him ; and solemnly to have confided the lad to his care, saying, he was 



the controller of her own and her son's fate, as the latter owed his 



advancement entirely to him. 



Meer Nasseer Khan's first care on gaining power, was to reward 

 the companions of his confinement. He conferred the government of 

 Bhag on Agha Aly Badozye. The office of darogah of Kalat, he gave 

 to Mullah Fazul Mahommad Khanahzad. The sundookdaree, to Mulla 

 Peer Mahommad. To Mulla Yaya, he gave the office of phahgasee, 

 and made Mulla Peer Mahommad Kalaghzye, duzbegeer and darogah 

 of Mustong, and Mulla Gudud, his nazir. 



Mulla Haizat fixed upon the chiefs to be employed, and took care 

 that they were of sober and modest habit, not likely to mislead the 

 young Khan. 



The first time that Nasser Khan is mentioned in the history of 

 Ahmed Shah, is in the following passage : — 



In a. h. 1171, being the 12th year of his reign, on the lith Rujab, 

 the king having received intelligence of Ghazee-ud- 

 deen Khan of Alumgeer, and of Shahzada Timoor, 

 ordered an army to assemble under Meer Nasseer Khan, the Baloch 

 chief, and to march on Cabool. On the 12th Shaban, the king started, 

 and after being detained fifteen days on the road from sickness, arriv- 

 ed at Cabool on the 7th Ramzan. 



Nasseer Khan after assembling his troops, looking on the hurry of 



„ , „. the king, as arguing his fear of some powerful de- 



Rebelhon. b> fe 6 r 



monstration on the part of the Marathas, threw off 



