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42 should keep their troops mounted and ready, as he intended to review them. At the same time he desired his spies to be on the watch, and to give him immediate notice the moment they perceived the enemy's cavalry alight, and prepare to clean their horses. On that instant Jehan-shah rushed on his brother's camp, where, after a slight combat the confusion became general. The enemy's troops confounded by so unexpected an assault, made but faint resistance and dispersed. The flight and dismay became so general, that Lal-koor, Jehan-dar-shah's favourite mistress, and who followed him every where, mounted upon an elephant concealed behind a curtain, was on this occasion obliged to fly with the crowd on foot without a veil. In this condition she fell into the hands of Rustem-dil-khan, who was actually loosening the string of pearl that hung in a tassel attached to the string of her drawers, when she was rescued from his hands. The confusion was so complete, that Jehandar-shah, unable to wait for his own elephant, got upon the first that came to hand, without a canopy, and wrapping himself up in a large sheet, bade the driver carry him across the line of the enemy's troops, as if he were carrying a lady, till he could find his way to Zulficar-khan. This bold step succeeded, and Jehandar-shah joined his general, just as cries of victory were filling the air in the