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LETTER XXIII.

DEAR SIR.

THE principal rural ports of the people of Indotan, are hunting and hawking: they purchae hawks and other birds of prey from Peria, which are taught to fly at all manner of game.

The Soubahs and other great characters of the country, find much amuement in the combats of wild beats. The elephant often encounters the elephant, with a rider mounted on each, to manage them, on a large pace of ground paled in with