— 114 — Posterity will be able to appraise more accurately the position that Zubeir is to fill in history. That he was endowed with talents for administration and organisation of a high order, that he was a mighty leader of men, born to "conquest and command" , cannot be denied : that according to his lights and judged by the standard of his times, his rule was not unnecessarily hard, must be admitted. Nor will history fail to applaud his rare self-restraint and noble equanimity "tried by both extremes of fortune, and never disturbed by either" . Like the great Hyder Ali, who founded the Mohammedan dynasty of Mysore, the adventurer became a general, the poor man a prince. Like him, too "in extreme old age his spirit remained as high, and his intellect as clear as in the prime of manhood."