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122 to direct us, I was ordered to accompany him with an ecort of Seapoys to the very place he decribed, where I found two elephants, two camels, and twelve Arabian hores, under the care of a few peaants, who made off on the appearance of our ams. I eized the cattle as the property of an enemy, and drove them to Gochipour, where the party waited my return.

Captain Baker reerving only one hore for his own ue, generouly divided thepoil among the oldiers as the well earned need of their military labours.

After a months tay here, we were