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pearance in tlieir trenches, and their ships under a renowned Phukan com- 
menced to tire. 
Fighting continued for several days. The Rajputs of Rajah Subli&n 
Singh distinguished themselves. Forty-one ships captured. Farhad arrived 
at the tlnmah of Muhammad Muqim, from whom he heard that the inhabitants 
of the district had been away for some days, but had just come back with 
many wounded. Farhad Khan therefore sent Muhammad Mumin Beg into 
the villages, as it was clear that they had been fighting against him. All 
males were killed and the women were carried off. 
On the 2nd Zf Qa’dah, [9th June, 1662] Farhad Khan returns to the 
Nawab. The captured women were let off. 
X. 
The roads entirely closed. The Thanahs are drawn in. 
With the progress of the rains the thanahs had to he drawn in. At the 
Nawab’s order, Adam Khan was to leave Abhipur and join head quarters. 
The other thanahs were to join the corps at Ghargaon, whilst Sarandaz 
Khan and Miyanah Khan were to guard the other banks of the Dik’ho. 
Jalal Khan, Ghfiz'i Khan, and Muhammad Muqim, should occupy this side of 
Dik’ho, and he under Mir Murtaza’s orders. 
This is done with difficulty. Sarandaz Khan and Miyanah Khan 
occupy a piece of land surrounded on three sides hy the Dik’ho Nalah,* and 
shut up the fourth side by a strong wall. The whole country is now 
re-occupied by the Asamese, only Mat’hurapur and Ghargaon being in the 
hands of the Imperialists. If a man dared to leave the camp, lie was certain 
to be shot by the Asamese. A similar case never happened before in the 
history of Dibit. Hero were 12,000 horse and numerous infantry locked in 
for six months, prevented hy the rains from continuing operations, and yet 
scarcely attacked by the enemies that surrounded them. Nor did during 
this time provisions arrive. “ The Amirs turned their eyes longingly to Dihli, 
and the soldiers yearned for their wives and children.” 
The Asamese were under orders of the Phukan Bijdili, an Asamese 
Brahman, whose father had risen from a storekeeper to he a noble. The 
Rajah himself had come from Namrup and taken up his abode in Solagori 
( ),t which in former times had been the capital of the Asamese 
Rajahs. It lies four stages from Mat’hurapur and Ghargaon. The Rajah had 
called up the whole population and placed them at Bijdili’s disposal. This 
commander’s head quarters were at the Dillx (^A) River, which issues from 
* Evidently the modern Nazirah. Mr. Foster tells me that traces of the wall 
which closed the fourth side still exist. 
t Solagori lies north of Ghargaon on the Disang. It is often called Hulagori, 
according to the interchange of s and h, above alluded to. 
