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During a 1966 trip to Tribal Territory, on the Pakistan side of that country's rugged wild border area with Afghanistan, Sally is visiting five of the seven sons of the Nawab of Dara.

"The boys drove us in their pink jeep to the family's 200 year-old, square-mile fort surrounded by a fifteen-foot wide wall, parts of which are still strong enough to support the jeep. The fort has a fourteen-mile tunnel that connects to another fort with yet another tunnel that connects to a third fort ten miles into the mountains. They took us through the old palace inside the fort where there were innumerable rooms, all in decay, but showed traces of what were once rich expensive tapestries, draperies and lounges. The boys were brought up there and at that time there was a polo ground, tennis courts and formal gardens. They said that somewhere within the fort lies buried gold worth a million pounds sterling , which had been raided from the Hindu kings of Delhi several centuries ago. The servants who dug the pit to bury the gold were killed and left in the pit to keep the location secret. That secret, however was lost forever with the untimely death of that Nawab"


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