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and gave orders to seize De Mello in Chatgaon. The latter was shortly 
after treacherously captured with thirty of his men and was sent to Gaur,* 
where they were kept strictly confined, because Antony de Sylva Meneses 
had soon after taken reprisals and sacked Chatgaon. Now at that time Slier 
Khan and his brother ’A'dil Khan had deserted from the Mughul to the king 
of Bengal. But Slier Klian wished to revenge the death of the youth whom 
Mahmud had slain,—De Barros means Firuz Shah III.—to procure the 
throne. Slier Klian, therefore, made war on Mahmud, and the king 
asked his Portuguese prisoners to assist him in the defence of Gaur. At the 
same time Babelo arrived with three ships sent by the Goa Governor, to 
demand the release of the captives, and Mahmud after securing their co¬ 
operation sent them to Gorij [Garhi] near K’lialgaon, where they valiantly, 
though in vain, opposed Sher Shah. Mahmud, pleased with their prowess, 
applied to Nuno da Cunlia for further assistance ; but when Perez de Sampayo 
came with nine vessels, he found Gaur in the hands of Sher Khan and heard 
that Mahmud had been killed. 
III. 
I now conclude this essay with my readings and tcanslations of the 
Bihar collection of rubbings from the time of Muhammad Tughluq to the 
year 1455 A. D. 
The first inscription is taken from the vault of one Sayyid Ahmad Pir- 
Pahar, regarding whom nothing is at present known in Biliar ; but it seems 
to refer to the building of a portico by a near relation of Muhammad 
Tughluq. 
No. 34. The Muhammad Tughluq Inscription of Bihar. A. H. 737. 
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people, “ which sometimes is in such numbers that some are trod to death. 
