336 W. Irvine —The Bangash Nawabs of FarruJchabad. [No. 4, 
tiers, he says, looked on a settlement as a victory, and he advised ’Ali 
Muhammad Khan to report to Court that, to please them, he had left the 
hills and had returned to Anwala. 
Narayan Das plunders Najib Ali Khan's camp. 
Narayan Das, an officer of Rajah Jai Singh Sawae, had been sent to 
restore order in Bhadawar. While there, his troops got out of hand from 
want of pay, and plundered the equipage of Najib ’Ali Khan, an officer in 
the employ of Kamr-uddin Khan, the wazir, who was collecting in Karhai. # 
Nawab Muhammad Khan, who at the time was faujdar of Shikohabad, # 
sent Amr Singh and Shaistah Khan to persuade Narayan Das to give up 
the property. Purdil Khan was despatched with men to aid Najib ’Ali 
Khan, and Ja’far Khan Bakhshi, who was out in the parganahs, was 
directed to follow. In addition Mangal Khan was sent. When the latter 
reached Sarae Ajit Mall, and Ja’far Khan was near Itawah, Narayan Das 
made oft by the fords on the Jamna. They followed and persuaded him to 
deliver up one elephant, elephant kettle-drums, several swivel guns (rakhld) 
and cannon, with carts and bullocks. After considerable difficulty, an ac¬ 
quittance was obtained from Najib ’Ali Khan and forwarded to the wazir. 
Story of a Mango. 
I introduce here, as an illustration of manners, a story about a won¬ 
derful mango tree in Farrukhabad. One day Muhammad Khan was seated 
in the back seat of Muhammad Shah’s hauda during a hunting-expedi¬ 
tion. The Emperor ate a mango half a seer in weight, of very fine taste, 
good colour and exquisite aroma. He gave the stone to Muhammad Khan, 
who wrapped it in his handkerchief, and sent it to Kaim Khan then at Far¬ 
rukhabad. Kaim Khan came out to meet it with honour as far as Soronf, 
through which , before the founding of Kasganj,^ ran the road to Delhi. 
The mango stone was planted in the Haiyat Bagli, where is Muhammad 
Khan’s tomb. The fruit it yielded when it grew up had no equal in Far¬ 
rukhabad, though only half as good as the original. 
Whenever it began to flower, a company of infantry (najib) was sta¬ 
tioned round it, and they kept guard over it. § During the fruit season 
thirty seers of milk a day were poured over the roots. It stood at the 
* Both in the Manipuri district. 
f On the Burhganga, 27 miles N. of Eta and about 60 miles N. W. of Farrukha¬ 
bad. 
J Nineteen miles N. of Eta and about 8 miles S. W. of Soron. 
§ Similar honours were paid in the time of the late Nawab of Rampur to the tree 
“ Samar-hihisht” in a village just east of Thana Bhowan in the Muzaffarnagar dis¬ 
trict, This tree has an entry in the tchewat or Proprietary Record all to itself. I 
think the Nawab paid Rs. 300 for the tree. 
