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and setts his knee upon the prisoners backe and begins to hack and cutt on on side and other about the wrest. In the meane tyme the poore man roaret exceedingly, kicking and bitting the ground for very anguish. When the villiane perceves the bone to bee laid bare on all sides, hee setteth the wrest to his knee and gives it a snap, and proceeds till hee hath hacked the hand quite of; which done, thay force him to rise and make him run soe long till through paine and loss of blood hee falls downe. They then unpinion him and the blood stops."
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THE HISTORY OF THE NIZAM SHAH KINGS OF AĦMADXAGAR. BY LIEUT.COLONEL T. W. HAIG, C.S.I., C.M.G., C.B.E.
(Continued from p. 283.) At this time one usain Khân,200 who had risen from the dregs of the people to rank and honour and was enrolled among the king's servants, and of whose affairs an account will be given hereafter, conspired with other of the courtiers to compass the downfall of Changiz Khân and by means of money bribes, and fair promises, gained over to his side a party who, with-him, made it their business to slander Changiz Khân, and daily perverted and misrepresented to the king all his acts until they estranged the king from him. Among other tMings they said that the whole army regarded themselves as the servants of Changiz Khan and would never parade at court until Changiz Khan appeared. In order to prove this charge, they raised one of the curtains of the royal pavilion on the side to which the king faced,
200 Husain Khan was the vile favourite of Murtaza Nizam Shah, and is better known by his later title of Sahib Khân. He fist attracted the king's attention at the siege of Numála. According to Firishta, ShAh Mirz& IsfahAnf, the envoy of Ibrahim Qutb Shah, was the prime mover in the plot Against Changiz Khân. He had offered Changiz Khan a bribe of 200,000 hans to dissuade his master from invading Bidar. Changiz Khan refused the bribe saying that his master supplied all his wants and that his intention was to overthrow the king of Bidar, who was a Sunni, in order that there might be but three kings in the Dakan, all Shi'ahs, who would live in amity and unite to oppose any aggression from Delhi. Shah Mirza, being thus foiled, turned his attention to the favourite, and told Husain Khan that Chengiz Khân intended to seize Berar for himself and to establish himself as independent ruler of the country. Husain Khan lent a ready ear to these suggestions, for the king had ordered Changiz Khân to punish him for some insolence of which he had been guilty and Changiz Khân had seen that the punishment was sufficiently severe. Husa in Khan now repeated to the king Shah Mirza's accusation against Changiz Khân, but the king rebuked him and told him that he knew that he had a grudge against Changiz Khân, whereupon Husain Khân referrod hiva to Shah Mirzà himself. The king sent socretly for Shâh Mirzê and questioned him. The envoy repeated his accusution und Murtaxd, still loth to Loliuvo it, resolvod to test Changiz Khún. Ho foigned to bu wuary of his sojouru in Burar aud to be anxious tu ruturn to Ahadnagar. Changiz Khîn urged him to stay for six months more, in urder that the newly conquered country might become accustomed to his rule, and then to return to his capital, leaving him in charge of the adıninistration for a time. The king regarded this proposal as confirmation of ShAh Mirza's charge and from that day we manner to Changiz Kh n changed. Changiz Khan, observing the change, abstained from attending court, on the plea of sickness. This only increased the suspicion against him and his master sent to him Hakim Mulanımad Migri, osten. sibly to treat him, but really as the bearer of a poisoned draught. Changiz Khan took the draught and, as the poison was working, wrote a lotter to his ungrateful master, protesting his fidelity and recommending to him some of the Foreign amers and his own contingent of Foreignere. After his death some letters from Shah Mirza, which proved his innocence, were found among his papers, and the king, on reading theia, W AB overcome with grief and shame, and caused Shah Mirza to be expelled from his camp-F. ii. 267-278
