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" time. You were a friend of my father's, and there was always friendfhip 

 " between my family and the Navab's, and my father did them confider- 

 « able fervices ; if his excellency will pay the money required for my 

 " releafe, it is an obligation that I (hall never forget." I aflurechhim, that 

 the Navab would not be backward, and defired to know how much was 

 required: Mooty Lol faid, feven lacks of rupees was the fum mentioned, 

 but that it might probably be fettled for lefs. I immediately returned to 

 the Navab, whom I found fitting with Nujeib-ul-Dowlah, I told him 

 all that had paiTed refpe&ing the bufinefs he fent me upon, but, as I well 

 knew the enmity which Nujeib-ul-Dowlah bore to the family and 

 perfon of Junkoojee, and thought, that from his good intelligence h» 

 might have fome intimation, that Junkoojee was taken alive, I thought 

 it was belt, to avoid faying any thing about him to the Navab at that time, 

 and went away to another part of the tent: but Nujeib-ul-Dowlah, 

 who had obferved'me, faid to the Navab, "from the countenance of 

 *« Casi Raja, I perceive that he has fomething elfe to fay which my 

 prefence prevents," Shuj ah-ul-Dowlah replied, that there were no fecrets 

 between them two, and immediately calling me, made me fwear by the 

 Ganges, to fpeak all that I mould have done, if Nujeib-ul-Dowlah had 

 not been there, which being thus compelled to do, I did. Nujeib-ul- 

 Dowlah, who was matter of the molt profound dilTimulation, faid, that 

 it was highly proper, and becoming great men to relieve their enemies 

 under fuch circumftances ; he therefore begged, that Shuj a h-ul-Dow la ii 

 would fettle the ranfom of Junkoojee, and that he himfelf would pay 

 half of it. This was his profeflion ; and foon after taking leave, he 

 went to the Grand Vizier, and informed him of all the particulars. 



As on one hand Nujeib-ul-Dowlah wimed to exterminate the family 



