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Mean time the rains drawing near to an end, the Bhow determined to 

 reduce the ftrong poft of Kunjpoora, which is fituated on the banks of the 

 yumnai about fifty cofs above Debfy, and at that time occupied by about 

 ten thoufand Rohillas, as the pofTefTion of that place would fecure his pajf- 

 iing the river to attack the Shah. He accordingly marched from Dehly, and, 

 arriving at Kunjpoora, afiaulted it with fifteen thoufand chofen men, and 

 after an obflinate refinance made himfelf mailer of the place, taking the 

 Governor Duleil Khan, and all the garrifon prifoners, and delivering up 

 the place to plunder. Tke Durranv Shah had exact intelligence of all 

 this proceeding, and was very defirous of relieving Kunjpoora, but the 

 yumna was yet impaflable. 



Soon after the rains broke up, and the Dujfara ' arrived : the Shah 

 gave orders that the day before the Dujfara all the army mould be affem- 

 bled for mufter ; which being done, he reviewed them himfelf -from an 

 eminence mifrontiof the carop. 



^'HE^P^r^z/yLarmy confiiled of twenty-four -Duftas (or Regiments), each 

 containing t-W$l#e hundred horfemen. The principal chiefs in command under 

 the Shah were, the Grand Vizier Shah Vulli Khan : — Jehan Khan : 

 §HAH f: Puss^no Khan; Nussir Khan Beloche,- — Berkhgrdar 

 Khan: — Viz i er Ulla Khan Kizelbajlii : — Morad Khan, a Perjian 

 Moghol. — Befides thefe principal chiefs there were many others of inferior 

 rank; 'and of the twenty-four Duftas above-mentioned, fix were .of the 

 Shah's flaves called Kokmn, 



There were alfo two thoufand camels, on each of which were mounted 

 £wpmuiketeers, armed with pieces of a very large bore, called Zumburuch-; 



