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zyes supported Mustafa Khan in Cutchee ; while on Meer Mahmood's 



side, were Mulla Futteh Mahommad wukeel, naib Abdu Rahman Ba- 



dozye, and Meyan Ruhulla Babee. Such was the 

 Dissensions. _. . . . 



dissension, that it spread to families ; fathers and 



uncles would be on one side, and sons and nephews on the other. 

 However, when Meer Mahmood, according to custom went to Cutchee 

 for the winter, Meer Mustafa would pay him the compliment of com- 

 ing to Peer Chatta to meet him. 



Meer Mahommad Raheem Khan had fifty horse, and was in the pay 



of his elder brother. He was a great drunkard, but 

 Mahommad Raheem. , . - , . ,. 



a generous man and a bold soldier : and he nearly 



succeeded in putting an entire stop to highway robbery in Cutchee. 



Mustafa was a great tyrant, and his punishments were most 

 cruel. 



Mahmood, although addicted to gambling, drinking and more degrad- 

 ing vices ; was both humane and indolent to a fault. It is reported of 

 him, that after ordering a culprit to be placed in confinement, he would 

 go in person at night, and release him. He was a man of great strength, 

 and it is said could straighten a horse- shoe. 



Mahmood, it is said, accompanied Shah Mahmood twice towards 

 Campaigns. Herat ; and that monarch and Shah Shuja to the 

 Derajahs and Sinde. 



Myan Ruhulla being a man of great talent and influence among the 



Myan Ruhulla. Brahoees, was looked upon by Maee Sahab with great 

 suspicion, and as a dangerous rival. 



She persuaded her colleague, Mustafa, to attempt the Myan's murder. 

 They could not for several years however find an opportunity. At last 

 one winter, when Meer Mahmood was on his way to Cutchee, on ar- 

 riving at Nad, he heard that Mustafa had assembled a force to oppose 

 his further advance. He immediately despatched a confidential slave, 

 by name Hajee Barat to Mustafa, who succeeded in appeasing the 

 latter, and Meer Mahmood advanced into Cutchee, and made Gun- 

 dava (properly Gunjaba) his head quarters. It was at this place, on the 

 eve of the Eed Kurban, when Mahmood was sleeping outside the town, 

 that Hajee Ubdu Rahman Kamangar, muazin of the mosque of Nasseer 

 Khan, and an accomplice of Mustafa's, came and informed his master, 

 that Myan Ruhulla was asleep and alone. The Khan, thinking it a 



