1779-12-13 (static/transcriptions/1779/12/019.jpg)

Dec. 13th.

was One, that that Moguls [were?] generally Sodomites, and loved Boys, of which discourse as that time Rustom Beg appear’d to take no notice. The same Witness said Rustom Beg was a Mogul, and was the only Mogul, who was present at that discourse.
This discourse, if it pass’d, was probably the provocation to give the wound.
The weapon was a kind of great knife, about fourteen Inches long in the blade, and the handle about five Inches, which is call’d in Moors Ghurrah.
Lesser [known as?] call’d Churree.
Such weapons as these call’d Churrah are frequently worn on the girdle by Sepoys and others, and are consider’d [stuck?] in the Girlde
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