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Rh after years he was to find such opportunity to gratify. Finally, to complete his education Mahomed Moshin [sic] was sent to Murshidabad, there to learn all that one of the most famous Muktabs of the time could teach him of the Koran and the classics, in which he had been so well grounded by Agha Shirazi.

After finishing his studies at Murshidabad, Mahomed Mohsin returned to his sister's house at Hooghly. The same friendship as in their younger days still existed between them and it was shortly after his return that Mahomed Mohsin's watchful care and devotion were the means of rendering her a great service. A woman of her position and wealth was not without enemies, and among a certain number of those who might hope to benefit by her death a plot was formed to poison her. This plot Mahomed Moshin had the good fortune to discover and was thus able to save his sister by warning her in time of the design against her life. So great, however, was the animosity roused against Mahomed Moshin amongst the conspirators that he thought it advisable to leave Hooghly for a time. This he was able to do as his sister was about to marry and so would not be left without a protection in his absence.

When Haji Mahomed Mohsin left Hooghly for the second time he was some thirty-two years old. Although he had always had a great desire to travel he had felt that his first duty was to the sister to