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MARCH, 1907.)
AHMAD SHAH AND IMAD-UL-MULK.
a drink made of tamarinds being prescribed with benefit. Daily one hundrad and fifty men died. Finding that the climato was adverse, the Shāh arrived at a fixed decision in his mind to return to Wilayat. He despatched the princes and "Imád-ul-mulk and Jangbås Khan to Farrokhābād ; while he wrote to Jahan Khan and Najib Khan that as soon as they had read his letter, and wherever they might boy thøy must start for his camp. Giving over this letter to "Imád-ul-mulk, he instructed him, and two days before his own departure started him and his party off for Farrukhābād. The Shāh himself two days afterwards marched from Mathuri, And, taking the route vid Kabul, made his way to Qandahär.
Let us go on with the story. The Mir Sahib went stage by stage with that oxpedition as far as Akbarābād. Jahăn Khin had carried out a general slaughter in that city as far as Nilah-gumbaz ; then he invested the fort. Rajah Nagar Mall and others were shut up in it. They finally agreed to pay Jahan Khan four lakha of rupees, promising to produce the money on the following morning. Three hours after sunriso had passed, when 'Imād-ul-mulk and the others made their entry into Akbarabad. Owing to the general slaughter and the investment, the city was in confusion as if Judgment Day had come. The inhabitants of the city had disappeared.
Imád-ul-mulk went straight to Jahan Khan and made over to him the Shah's letter. After reading it he said: "I have a promise to be paid four lakhs of rupees to-morrow morning. I stop "here to-day and up to midday to-morrow. On receiving the sum named from Nägar Mall, I will
begin my march." "Imid-ul-mulk retorted: “That is impossible. This is imperial territory. "What damage has been done cannot be helped. But now the Shāh is on the march and you have "got this order. Relinquish the hope of collecting the rupees, for after the receipt of them there " will be delay."
Jahân Khãn said: “One lakh has been promised for this evening, get that paid over to me. # Then what harm is there if I march." Thug 'Imād-ul-mulk sent word to Rājah Nagar Mall. The latter thought it a lucky escape and sent the lakh of rupees to Jahan Khan the same day, and that Khân began his march at the time of evening (maghrib) prayer, and went away.
The day after this we made a halt in Akbarābād. The princes and Jangbaz Khân crossed the Jampah and pitched their camp in a line with Katrah Wazir Khan,27 Then quitting Akbarabad they moved stage by stage as far as parganah Msinpuri. During these marches two or three things happened, the record of which is worthy of being dwelt upon.
From Akbarābād, Najib Khan sent his full brother, Sultan Khan, with four hundred horsemen in attendance on 'Imad-ul-mulk. When the princes, 'Imád-ul-mulk, Jangbaz Khan, and Sultan Khin reached Mainpuri, they consulted and decided to halt there. The Mir Sabib was to go on to Farrukhabad, and bring back Ahmad Khan with him. On his arrival, whatever was decided on, could be carried out. The Mir Sahib left the author with the tent and baggage at Mainpuri and departed for Farrukhābād. Nawāb Ahmad Khan sent to tents with screens for the princes, and one tent with soreens for 'Imüd-ul-malk. They wrote to the author that he was to deliver these tents at their respective destinations and obtain and forward with all speed answers to the letters, The Nawāb himself would join the camp in four days. The author carried out the instructions sent him by the Mir Sahib.
On the fourth day, in the morning, a messenger arrived with a letter from the Mir şāḥib, saying, that on that day at one watoh after sunrise the heir-apparent, Mahmud Khan, would reach the camp in advance, and the Nawāb himself would reach it in the afternoon. I carried off this letter to
* On the lett bank, opposite Raj Ghat, between Nawabganj and the river plate 48.
100 Oopstable's "Hand Atlas,"
