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He replied, "So was I; and I fired three shots at you from behind a tree are you not wounded?" I replied, "No." "Well," said he, "I never missed my man before in my life." I asked him at what period of the action it was that he aimed at me. "When you were fighting with Sobah Khissna Rhannah," replied he.
The letter went on to state that he was a great loss to the Nepaul government, and it was the opinion of the quarter-master-general, as well as of Sir David Ochterlony, that the death of this sobah contributed greatly to turn the current of affairs in the Nepaul campaign.
In a letter addressed to me afterwards, by Captain Pickersgill, quarter-master-general of the army, I was congratulated on the fall of that distinguished sobah, or chieftain. His name, the quarter-master-general stated, was Khissna Rhannah Bahadur, and that he was the identical officer who had planned and executed the massacre at Summanpore and Persah, the season before.
"You were not far from your man, then," said I, "for one of your shots struck the peak of my cap." At this he laughed. He afterwards complimented me on my swordmanship, and said that few could touch the sobah in that exercise. He then asked to look at one of my men's muskets, and he put himself through the manual and platoon exercises, giving himself the word of command in English.
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