Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 12.10.6

12.10.6

He took with him my paternal uncle, Mehdi-nessar-qhan, and also my maternal grand-uncle, Abdol-aaly-qhan, who having stretched every nerve to satisfy out of his private fortune all the men in his brigade, had engaged them by that effort to follow him to Bengal. It will not prove disagreeable to the reader to be told that a little before his departure, this nobleman had received another letter from Aaly-verdy-qhan, his kinsman, which contained the same invitation as the former, but where that Viceroy had wrote with his own hand in the margin this verse of the poet : " We expected from our friends some proofs of their attachment ;" And here he had stopped short, without adding the second verse which would have closed the distich ; but when the two noblemen arrived at M8rsh8d-abad with such numerous troops, and they went to pay their respects to their uncle, the latter on embracing Abdol-aaly-qhan, closed the distich, and added : " But what we had been suspecting, proves to be an error." Notwithstanding such a reinforcement, the Viceroy thought it prudent to assemble more forces ; and he made additions to the several corps commanded by his Generals, taking care, however, to proportion the new levies to their respective merits. Mustapha-qhan's brigade, which was of five thousand men, was carried to eight thousand ;