. Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo, the countries adjoining the mountain-course of the Indus, and the Himalaya, north of the Panjab . any chance. He was an old friend andfellow-soldier of Runjit, and was proud of showingthe scars of an old wound he had received across theback of both hands, when using a double-handedsword. He stood greatly in awe of Runjit, who wasapt to recall a governor of a province at a momentsnotice; and he kept in favour with him by well-timedpresents, and by always attending to the adviceof his old friend and schoolfellow, Mohamed Afzul,the Kazi, or chief judge of Kas
. Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iskardo, the countries adjoining the mountain-course of the Indus, and the Himalaya, north of the Panjab . any chance. He was an old friend andfellow-soldier of Runjit, and was proud of showingthe scars of an old wound he had received across theback of both hands, when using a double-handedsword. He stood greatly in awe of Runjit, who wasapt to recall a governor of a province at a momentsnotice; and he kept in favour with him by well-timedpresents, and by always attending to the adviceof his old friend and schoolfellow, Mohamed Afzul,the Kazi, or chief judge of Kashmir, who, taken alto-gether, was by far the best of the Panjabis residingin the valley. Whilst I was at Kabul, Mihan Singh was guiltyof an act of atrocity which may be considered as aspecimen of the summary and vindictive justice ad-ministered to the unfortunate inmates of an easternharem. He baked alive his favourite wife, the motherof his only son. She happened to be in the Panjab,where some of her enemies accused her of an in-trigue, and Runjit sent her to her husband in Kash-mir. Her son, who feared the worst from the hands. * A RAJAH MURDERED. 73 of his father, dashed his turban on the ground beforehim (the most imploring act of supplication that anoriental can make use of) and knelt bareheaded at hisfeet. Mihan Singh promised to forgive her. Soonafterwards the poor lad was sent to the Panjab, in orderto be there when Sir Henry Fane, the commander-in-chief, was on his visit to Lahore. His unfortunatemother was then seized and forced into a bath, thetemperature of which was then increased for the pur-pose of destroying her by suffocation. This did notsucceed as soon as was expected; her screams wereso horrible that several people left the Shyr Gurh,that they might not be obliged to listen to them ; andin the end, her husband sent her a bowl of poison,which she swallowed. Letters which I received by the July mail, 1841,informed me that Mihan Singh had been murderedin his du
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