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154 northern Konkan. Presently his rule extended on the seacoast from Kaliani in the north to the neighbourhood of Portuguese Goa, a distance of over 250 miles; east of the Ghats it reached to Mirich on the Krishna; and its breadth in some parts was as much as one hundred miles. It was not a vast dominion, but it supported an army of over fifty thousand men, and it had been built up with incredible patience and daring.

THE MIHTAR-I MAHAL AT BIJAPUR.

He had no anxiety on the score of his eastern neighbour, the King of Bijapur, whose troops he routed and whose lands he plundered at will; and he now longed for fresh fields of rapine. The Hindus had