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Thusho. The Mehtar captured Hakim Beg, the son of Thusho, at Gakuch and brought him 

 along with great ceremony and treated him very kindly, making him many presents in 

 order to show him his magnanimity. Reaching Gulapur, the Mehtar sent Hakim Beg to 

 his father Thushoo with a message of surrender ; but Thusho was still more enraged at such 

 a message from the lips of his own son, whom he blamed for bringing with him an army 

 against his father ; and (taking up a matchlock) was ready to commence fighting. Hakim 

 Beg who had seen Badshah's might, however, persuaded him from doing so, and 

 forced him to accept allegiance. Thusho yielded to this, and in the midst of a large 

 crowd of the headmen and his followers, came out of his fort to salaam to Badshah. A 

 dance was then held by the Mehtar, and Thusho ordered to show his obedience by dancing. 

 This he did, but instead oisalaaming to Badshah in the course of the dance, he bowed towards 

 his own fort. The Mehtar was filled with anger and ordered his servants to behead 

 Thusho with his 1 2 sons at the same spot. They were cruelly murdered and buried all 

 together. Their grave, which is called " Thusho ai Bombat," is about five yards square 

 and nine feet high, having the form of a small vault in which they are buried. The roof 

 has now fallen in owing to a fig-tree having grown out of the vault. Khhushal Beg, 

 the brother of Thusho, was afterwards recalled by Badshah from Chatur Khan and made 

 Wazir of Gulapur. 



The advance of Skardu Chiefs against Chitral and the Devastation 



of the Chemogah Village. 



When Sher Shah, Ali Shah, Shah Murad, and Shah Sultan, the princes of Skardu, ad- 

 vanced towards Chitral, they halted on their way for a couple of days at Chemogah, a village 

 about 19 miles east of Gilgit. Here they made merry, played polo, and tried to overawe 

 the people by the horrible noise of about a score of drums. All the inhabitants of the village 

 came to pay their respects, except one wealthy man of Chemogah. Some of his enemies 

 called his absence to notice. He was therefore brought by the Chiefs' men and asked 

 to explain the cause of his delay in paying his respects. He stated that he had gone to 

 his goat-pen, and as he had left the kids and lambs loose to suck milk, he could not, 

 owing to their noise, hear of the arrival of the princes or the sound of their drums. The 

 chiefs turned very angry, and to ascertain the truth of his statement, they deputed some of 

 their servants to go into the man's pen and to listen for the sound of the drums, which 

 would be beaten afterwards. They returned, saying that the noise of his flocks was 

 sufficiently overpowering to overcome the sound of the drums. The chiefs were astonished 

 to hear this ; but still they did not relent, and they decided that the lands of Chemogah should 

 belaid waste in crder to prevent any of the people becoming rich enough to admit of a 

 similar display of arrogance and disrespect. For this purpose the chiefs gave orders that 

 twelve bags of quicksilver should be thrown into the source of the Chemogah stream, in 

 order that thequick silver, because of its weight, would cause the level of the stream to be 

 depressed and prevent water from being obtained for the irrigation of the land ; and so it 

 came about that Chemogah village and fields were laid waste. 



Their army is said to have arrived at Gilgit by both the Haramosh and the Astore routes. 

 When both the divisions joined at Hinzil, a village about seven miles north-west of Gilgit, the 



