‘Shah Shuja immediately dispatched a few of his most trustworthy men to find these two gems and advised them that they should leave no stone unturned in their efforts. They found the Koh-i-Noor with a mullah who in his ignorance was using it as a paperweight for his official papers. As for the Fakhraj ruby, they it found with a Talib, a student, who had uncovered it when he went to a stream to swim and wash his clothes. They impounded both gems and brought them back in the king’s service.’
