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Translation of the Toofut ul Kir am, a History of Sindh. By. 

 Lieut. Postans. 



[Continued from page 99.] 



Account of the circumstances attending the death of Mahamed 

 Bin Cassim. 



Thus, when the two daughters of Dahir, Purmul Deo and Suruj 

 Deo, who were on the howdah with him, arrived for the service of the 

 Khalif, he saw that they were extremely beautiful, and appropriated 

 them to himself; still, in order to dissipate their shyness and distress, 

 he committed them to the care of the keepers of the Harem, and after 

 a time called one to his bed. Now since the death of their father had 

 sorely afflicted them, she said, " I am not for the Khalif, for Maha- 

 med Cassim took me to himself for three nights." The Khalif on hear- 

 ing this was enraged, and at once wrote an order himself and despatched 

 it, to the intent, that on seeing that order, he, Mahamed Cassim, should 

 cause himself to be enclosed in a raw hide and sent to the presence 

 of the Khalif. This order was received by Mahamed Bin Cassim 

 at Yassur : sufficient was it that the order was from the potentate, to 

 which there is but obedience ; he was sewed up in a raw hide and sent 

 off: on the third day he died ; they put his body in a box and took it 

 to the Khalif, who immediately called the two women and said, " See 

 how absolute is my power." They laughed and said, " In the accom- 

 plishment of the wish of the Khalif there is no wavering; but in 

 justice and wisdom there is neither foresight or discrimination, seeing 

 the man, who treated us as if he were our father and brother, on our 



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