[2]. If my memory betrays me not, this unfortunate commander, unable to bear his shame, took poison.
[3]. It should be remembered that Zalim was quite blind, and that Holkar had lost the use of one eye. [See Vol. II. p. [1234].]
[4]. [Compare the meeting of Alexander I. of Russia and Napoleon at Tilsit on June 25, 1807.]
[5]. [Dīg, in Bharatpur State; Pirāwa, one of the Central India districts included in Tonk State (IGI, xx. 151).]
[6]. [Karīm Khān surrendered to the British in 1818, and was given an estate in Gorakhpur District.]
[7]. Jhālarapātan, ‘the city of the Jhāla,’ the regent’s tribe. [Others explain the name to mean city (pātan) of springs (jhālra): or city of bells, because it contained 108 temples (IGI, xiv. 123).]
[8]. Mihrab Khan was the commandant of one division of Zalim’s contingent, placed at my disposal, which in eight days took possession of every district of Holkar’s adjacent to Haraoti, and which afterwards gained so much credit by the brilliant escalade of the Saudi fortress, when co-operating with General Sir John Malcolm. The Royals (Raj-Paltan) were led by Saif Ali, a gallant soldier, but who could not resist joining the cause of the Maharao and legitimacy in the civil war of 1821.