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32 different military evolutions of the men in the field, and on uch occaions, I was clad myelf in uitable regimentals. Capt. Gravely in particular, was very fond of me, and never paed by without calling to know how I was. This kind attention gradually dipelled the gloom which, in ome penive moments, hung over my mind ince the lat tender interview. My poor mother under all the affliction of parental anxiety, and trembling hope for my return, ent my brother as an advocate for her to Mr. Baker, to whom he offered four hundred rupees, conceiving it would be a means of inducing him to end me back: but Mr. Baker had a oul uperior to uch ordid purpoes, and far from accepting them,