This enterprising young man, having posted a number of men in the vicinity, entered the place on the plea of visiting the Mogol with a message from Aureng-Zebe, and fell suddenly on the guards stationed at the gate; he was quickly followed by his men, who overcame the unsuspecting garrison, and made themselves masters of the fortress. If ever man was astonished, that man was Chah-Jehan when he perceived that he had fallen into the trap he had prepared for others, that he himself was a prisoner,
