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his door a totally unexpected enemy in purchased alliance with the 

 ancient hunters of his line. If then at Kutterah on the 23d April 1774, 

 the victorious English general turned away in sadness from the corpse 

 of the gallant Hafiz Rehmut Khan, and reviewed with pain and disgust 

 the results of his own triumph, the civil narrator of this tragical revo- 

 lution, however indignant at the gross misrepresentations and false 

 colouring of facts, which both in the senate and the library have as- 

 sociated the early English name in Rohilcund with altogether unredeem- 

 able shame, and the extinguished rule of the Rohillas with every fancied 

 virtue, may be excused for pausing one moment in his task, and yielding 

 the tribute of his deep regrets over the bier of the Rohilla chief. But 

 I must not travel further from my record. What was the effect of 

 all the above named revolutions on the circumstances of the Terrai ? 

 The reign of Rajah Deep Chund in Kumaon, after lasting nearly thirty 

 years, ended in his murder in 1697 Saka, or 1775 a.d. He was, 

 therefore, almost from first to last, a contemporary of Hqfiz Rehmut 

 Khan, and the catastrophes of the Rohilcund and Kumaon principalities 

 occurred within a year of each other ; — or, if nothing but the crowning 

 success of the Goorkhas in 1791 a.d. can be considered as the conclusion 

 of the Kumaon raj, the year of Deep Chund's violent death at the hands 

 of Mohun* Sing, his spuriously descended cousin, may be recorded as 

 commencing the fifth act of the hill tragedy. During the first six- 

 teen years of his reign, Deep Chund enjoyed the advice and aid of the 

 wise minister or Buhshee, Seeb-dev Joshee, to whose care the dying lips 

 of Kullean Chund had entrusted the youthful prince. The trust appears 

 to have been well fulfilled, and during this period the management of 

 the Terrai occupied a large share of the Bukshee's attention. Forts were 

 built at Roodurpoor and Casheepoor, as outposts to watch the Rohillas, 



* As some mistakes are often made as to the relative position by birth of Pertaub 

 Chund at Almorah and Sheoraj Sing at Casheepoor, T give their immediate genea- 

 logy :— 



Huree Sing. 



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1. 2. 



Mohun Chund, Lall Sing, 



Mahendra Sing, Goorman Sing, 



Pertab Sing, Sheoraj Sing, 



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