Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 16.7.1

16.7.1

"Nothing but dust is to be seen in this plain immense; "Let us go quickly over it with our eyes shut up." Whilst all Bengal resounded with this discovery, news came that the Marhattas having turned the Bengal army, were proceeding to M8rsh8d-abad by rapid marches through the hilly country. Aaly-verdy-qhan who was bent on engaging those ravages by all means, and who did not trust either the troops or the deputy he had left in his capital, decamped from Midnip8r, and came back to Bardevan. There he learned that the enemy who did not like a close engagement, and who dreaded his very name, had again retreated behind the hills westward of M8rsh8d-abad. It was during this march he learned that Fahr-eddin-hossein-qhan had either by the neglect or connivance of his guards, found means to effect his escape, and to make his way good to Mir-habib and to the Marhattas; but he soon became tired of his new friends. Bred with delicacy, he had never known but by hearsay what bodily pain might be; and he no sooner saw himself amongst those new friends of his with nothing but his horse for all carriage, and nothing but scanty meals for all table, than his spirits failed. Finding himself harassed by long marches and daily toil, he took a disgust to such a way of life, and quitted the Marhattas, to repair to Shah-djehan-abad;