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Rh his defeat? did flight avail Shujah? If I am yet destined to reign, the scriptural sentence, 'Many a time did a small number prevail over a multitude,' shall be verified in my person; nor is victory and success yet so far distant from us."

To all this Amin-ed-doula rejoined that he had no more than twenty troopers with him, for that every one else was gone. "Very well," said the prince coolly, "let me have one-half of these twenty, that I may rush with them on that wretch Moiz-ed-din; and with the other ten do you rush on that other wretch Khujista-akhter." The general was in despair on hearing these words. The king was yet speaking, when Khwaja Hussein, since Khan Douran, was heard to say from behind, "General, I am going to Bengal; take my advice, let us go together." "Never;" answered the general: "so long as there is breath in Azim-ush-shan, I will never desert him." He had hardly said this when a cannon-shot having struck the king's elephant full on the root of the proboscis, made him furious. The animal turned about, and ran to the water-side; his driver lost his seat, and fell on the ground. Jelal-khan Lody, who sat behind, laid hold of the ropes, and sliding down on the ground,