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that service. He went One autumn for the first time and brought back the taxes collected, which
were sent to the Maharajah through Baghdur Shah. Six weeks later, some gold washers came
to Gilgit to pay their respects to Zoraweru, who asked them whether they had had a bad
season as the taxes paid had been small. The goldwashers said that it had been as good as
usual; so Zoraweru, on referring to the accounts of the ■ preceding year, found a difference of 5
tolas (about 60 Rupees). Doulat Shu was at once thrown into chains and sent to Jammu in
charge of Ghulam Haidar and Mirza. The Maharajah sent him to the same place in which
Sultan is confined and where both are now. In neither case was there an investigation.
When Isa Bahadur heard of the imprisonment of men who had rendered such services as
Sultan and Doulat Shu he came to Gilgit, where he found Ghulam Haidar and Mirza and
took them to Jammu. They there interceded for the prisoners with the Maharajah and
represented that brave and faithful men should not be punished with perpetual imprison-
ment, one of whom had conquered a country for His Highness, which the other had
kept for Kashmir by his admirable arrangement with Chitral. The Maharajah told them
to go about their own business. When they heard this, they left, but, in their corres-
pondence during four years, they constantly urged the release of the pris oners on His Highness.
Two years ago they again presented themselves at Jammu and represented that the years
that Sultan and Doulat Shu had already passed in prison were a sufficient punishment.
They conjured His Highness by his idol, but the Maharajah threatened to Send them to keep
company with the prisoners if they did not at once desist from their importunities.
When Isa Bahadur heard such words, he left the same night and galloped on
without stopping, till he had got to Sher Kila. He still considers that he has been very
discourteously treated by Kashmir and his correspondence with the Maharajah has
ceased. I have heard him lament over the past. Ghulam Haidar and Mirza kept on for
a whole month importuning His Highness, who resolved on imprisoning them, when
they fortunately asked and obtained leave to go horns to Gilgit. The three Chiefs have
not visited Jammu since the affair which I have related.
PRESENT STATE OF MIR VALI.
A jrear and a half ago Mir Vali (who drugs himself with charas=a preparation of hemp) got
offended with Pahlivan, (probably on account of a difference of opinion in re Hay ward); went to
Kandia (road described elsewhere) and to Manikial [not the village so often referred to in the
account of the Wars] on the borders of Swat. Thence he went to Tall, Eamta, Berahmar
and then to Beikey, the Akhun of Swat, who asked him why he had come. Mir
Vali said that Pahlivan had annoyed him and as the Akhun was a great Saint he
had come to him, having no other friends. The Akhun entertained him for eight months,
after which, on a Friday (when service takes place at noon instead of 2 p. m) he
told him to go back to Yasin, " for your heart's desire has been accomplished." Mir Vali
at once started off on horseback, taking the bank of the Indus, On the third day he reached Ghor-
that service. He went One autumn for the first time and brought back the taxes collected, which
were sent to the Maharajah through Baghdur Shah. Six weeks later, some gold washers came
to Gilgit to pay their respects to Zoraweru, who asked them whether they had had a bad
season as the taxes paid had been small. The goldwashers said that it had been as good as
usual; so Zoraweru, on referring to the accounts of the ■ preceding year, found a difference of 5
tolas (about 60 Rupees). Doulat Shu was at once thrown into chains and sent to Jammu in
charge of Ghulam Haidar and Mirza. The Maharajah sent him to the same place in which
Sultan is confined and where both are now. In neither case was there an investigation.
When Isa Bahadur heard of the imprisonment of men who had rendered such services as
Sultan and Doulat Shu he came to Gilgit, where he found Ghulam Haidar and Mirza and
took them to Jammu. They there interceded for the prisoners with the Maharajah and
represented that brave and faithful men should not be punished with perpetual imprison-
ment, one of whom had conquered a country for His Highness, which the other had
kept for Kashmir by his admirable arrangement with Chitral. The Maharajah told them
to go about their own business. When they heard this, they left, but, in their corres-
pondence during four years, they constantly urged the release of the pris oners on His Highness.
Two years ago they again presented themselves at Jammu and represented that the years
that Sultan and Doulat Shu had already passed in prison were a sufficient punishment.
They conjured His Highness by his idol, but the Maharajah threatened to Send them to keep
company with the prisoners if they did not at once desist from their importunities.
When Isa Bahadur heard such words, he left the same night and galloped on
without stopping, till he had got to Sher Kila. He still considers that he has been very
discourteously treated by Kashmir and his correspondence with the Maharajah has
ceased. I have heard him lament over the past. Ghulam Haidar and Mirza kept on for
a whole month importuning His Highness, who resolved on imprisoning them, when
they fortunately asked and obtained leave to go horns to Gilgit. The three Chiefs have
not visited Jammu since the affair which I have related.
PRESENT STATE OF MIR VALI.
A jrear and a half ago Mir Vali (who drugs himself with charas=a preparation of hemp) got
offended with Pahlivan, (probably on account of a difference of opinion in re Hay ward); went to
Kandia (road described elsewhere) and to Manikial [not the village so often referred to in the
account of the Wars] on the borders of Swat. Thence he went to Tall, Eamta, Berahmar
and then to Beikey, the Akhun of Swat, who asked him why he had come. Mir
Vali said that Pahlivan had annoyed him and as the Akhun was a great Saint he
had come to him, having no other friends. The Akhun entertained him for eight months,
after which, on a Friday (when service takes place at noon instead of 2 p. m) he
told him to go back to Yasin, " for your heart's desire has been accomplished." Mir Vali
at once started off on horseback, taking the bank of the Indus, On the third day he reached Ghor-