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16 about twelve o'clock, and the company retired, the Raja to his palace, and the Officers to, their quarters.

I was highly pleaed with the appearance of the military. Gentlemen, among whom I firt beheld Mr. Baker, who particularly drew my attention: I followed him without any retraint through every part of the palace and tents, and remained a pectator of "the entire cene of pleaure, till the company broke up; and then returned home to my mother, who felt ome anxiety in my abence. When I decribed the gaiety and plendor I beheld at the entertainment, he eemed very much diatified; and expreed, from maternal tendernes, her ap— prehenions of loing me. Nothing