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Rajah’s daughter was provided a place in the Nawab’s harem. On the 9th 
Jumada II., eleven elephants were brought in. 
The order to return to Bengal was given on the 10th Jumada II., [9th 
January, 1663], to the intense joy of all. The Nawab had still to travel in 
palld ; he did not march over Ghargaon, hut went straight to Taramhani, 
where the prisoners, whom the Rajah had detained in Namrup, and Badli 
Phukan’s family arrived. 
XVII. 
Arrival at La’hhugar. Distress during the retreat. March over Baritalah 
to Khizrpur. Death of the Nawab. 
On the 26th Jumada II., [25th January, 1663] the Nawab left 
Dewalgaon for Lak’hugar. His health daily improved. Mir Murtaza 
brought all stores from Ghargaon, and twenty-five elephants arrived which the 
Rajah had sent. Many people, males and females, followed the army, happy 
to find thus a means of leaving A’sam. 
The Nawab had resolved to go to Gawahatti, settle financial mat- 
ters, and then to march against Koch Bihar. lie, therefore, embarked with 
the hostages at Lak’hugar, sending the principal part of the army via 
the Dak’hinkol to Baritalah where they should cross the Brahmaputra. 
On the 1st Rajab [29th January], he left Lak’hugar, inspected on his road 
portions of Dumuriah, now annexed, and passed in palld over the Kajli plain, 
where never before an army had passed. On the first and the second days, 
he travelled eight kos daily ; on the third, fourteen ; on the fourth, twelve. 
He then passed the Kulang river and then Port Kajli. During these four 
days, the men lived on water and the animals on grass. At Kajli, the Nawab 
rested a few days. The mother and the son of Malcr Dhaj, Rajah of Durang, 
who had lately died, waited on the Nawab. The Rajah of Dumuriah was also 
expected. But his brother’s son only came, and, soon after, the Rajah’s 
mother. 
Here the Nawab had a relapse, which ended in asthma, and the hasty 
way in which he proceeded from remedy to remedy, made him only 
worse. 
In the evening of 11th, [7th February, 1663] the same day on which 
the mother of the Rajah of Dumuriah had come, tremendous lightning 
and thunder frightened the army, and immediately afterwards, a strong 
earthquake was felt which shook all, whether they were sitting or standing, 
reclining or sleeping. The shocks continued for half an hour. 
On the 13th [9th February], the Nawab left Kajli, and arrived at Pandu, 
which lies opposite to Gawahatti. Muhammad Beg, Faujdar of Gawahatti 
reported the capture of eighty-four Durang elephants in the k’hedahs. 
The Nawab recommended to him the mother and the son of the late 
