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Rh of Bengal for hip-building, and other ues.

In January 1783, we arrived at Calcutta, that great emporium of wealth and commerce, where people of rank appear in a tyle of grandeur far uperior to the fahionable eclat diplayed in the brilliant circles of Europe. Every private gentleman is attended by twenty ervants, at leat; eight of whom called bahareas; are alternately employed in carrying his palanquin: and two footmen termed halcarahs, walk before this travelling vehicle: he alo keeps three or four dometic ervants, namely, a conumma or butler, a bowberchee or cook, and a kizmutgaur or valet: to