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Ch. 4: The Famous Koh-I-Nor Diamond

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THE KOH-I-NUR.                          93
The defeated Mogul gave an unheard-of quan­tity of jewels to Nadir Shah " who was at first reluctant to receive them, but at length con­sented to place the seal of his acceptance upon the mirror of his request." Such reluctance is very foreign to the generally rapacious and grasping character of Nadir Shah, and probably existed only in the flowery imagination of the writer of his life.
Having become aware that the Koh-i-nur was not among the treasures he had already sealed with his acceptance, Nadir Shah set about hunt­ing for it, and at last a traitor was found who betrayed the secret of its hiding-place. A woman from the harem told the Persian king that the coveted diamond lay hidden in the folds of Mohammed's turban, which he never took off. Nadir accordingly one day invited his help­less friend, Mohammed, to exchange turbans with him in sign of their everlasting friendship. As in the time of the first free-will offering to Baber two centuries before, the Koh-i-nur was
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