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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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some beinge a sheepe & ye like they worshipt. This Allam Cawne plundered all, conqueringe them, & by yt meanes horded vast and vnknowne riches, woh he hid from ye Emperor, they Consistinge in Images and Jewells of incredable vallew; And to hide or conceale this his greate welth from ye Emperor and suspition of the people, he Borrowed & tooke vp on interrest vast sumes and Dyed indebted soe.
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Alla-Cawns sonns, pferd by Jogeere to Command in his Army, But since by Saiahan and Now Oram Zebb Emperors to make discoverey, hath brought them to poverty. Theirs Only One in beinge, ye Lord Jeffer Cawna, a Collonell of horsse, who beinge in Nessessity for money, caime to Mr Tho: Roch, Mr Robt Smith, Mr John White And I, John Cambell, & told vs if wee would lent him such a some of money, he would pawne to vs such a howse, a greate pennyworth. Wee lent him the money. On woh an old Brammonist, sarvt to his grandfather, told vs if we would serch, theire was to be found great riches in that howse, Sayinge yu are Xpians and may doe it, We can not, but indanger of lives & families. The Emperer will not call yu to soe strict accot as he will doe vs if ought but well happen.
We agreed to give yo Lord and him two shares and each of vs one; Soe we went to worke, haveing laborers, And had dugg Nine fathom deepe, for Alla Cawn had built howse vppon howse over y place he buried ye money and tresure in.
This howse is as bigg as Whitehall & Scotch yard [Scotland Yard] 5 and verry stronge, built Castle wise. The laborers in digging, some weere struck dead, vizt 2:; others lamd, leggs and armes broke; & others hurried out; Soe yt all other laborers weere discurraged.
Oram Zebb, now Emperer, heareing we weere digginge, sent to know ye reason. We returnd him answer for stones to build a howse, weh Mr Roch, vnder Culler, then was buildinge; for 6 mo we continewed digging, but found noethinge. Soe I, John Cambell, required my money againe. Said the Lord Jeffery Cawn, such things are heere: And I will consult some coniurers, and if you finde them not you shall haue your money againe. He did consult and brought three of those Coniurers to vs. On wch wee came to gether and showed them how farr wee had diggd, which was wth in Nine inches of a pott of brass as bigg as a bushell. Said ye coniuers, take vp such a stone, weh don, y pott appeared. Said they, medle not wth it now, but lett it a lone till morninge. Wee knew not what was in it, but iudgeing it ye prize, or pte of what wee sought for, That night we weere verry merry. But in the midst of our mirth comes into ye Midle of ye Court, wch was large, a great many laborors with Mattock, Spade and other Implemts, All of siluer, And in an instant cast vp a banke of earth higher then the rest, & erected On it a Cannope of State.
Others came And spred Carpetts. This Cannopie of State was borne by Nine seemeinge Men. The Staves of Siluer. We had Candles and lamps, but they Great wax torches.
Mad One pott, when we caime to itt, was turnd into Charcoaie to or thinkinge, but we weere forbidden to medle wth it and next tyme the same pott was gold; it had been taken away & brought againe,
An hower after the Cannope was erected & Carpette spred, being about 12 Clock at night, comes a great Devell in shape of Man in a Chaire state borne vppon mens shoulders and a summerre [sumbreiro, umbrella] over his head, supported with gold staves, in great state and many attendants after him. He sits downe vnder ye place of state; most of ye rest stand by him. We all sadly amazed, I, Jno Cambell, sounded [swooned] but recovered psently. I had, as ye other 3 xpians, my bible and seriously fell to readinge.
Jafar Khan, son-in-law of the wasir Asaf Khan, was appointed prime minister by Aurangzeb in 1663 and died in 1670.
46 From Stow we learn that "a large plot of ground enclosed with briok is called Scotland, where great buildings have been for receipt of the kings of Bootland."
