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RUNJEET-SINGH, AND HIS SUWARREE OF SEIKS—p.7.
"This drawing, made on the occasion of Runjeet Singh’s interview with the governor-general of India, in 1831, represents a suwarree (cavalcade) of natives, with the Lahore chieftain, and his retinue. The landscape is a sketch near the river Sutleje, with a fortified Seik town, and a distant view of the Himalaya Mountains. Mr. Burnes frequently mentions the magnificence of the dresses, and the jewellery displayed at Runjeet’s grand entertainments. Among the latter was the celebrated diamond weighing three and a half rupees, and said to be worth three and a half millions of money; also a ruby weighing fourteen rupees, and a topaz half the size of a billiard-ball."
