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LETTER VI.

DEAR SIR.

WE had carcely been one night at Fulwherea, when ome traggling villagers of the neighbouring country, tole unperceived into our camp, and plundered our tents and marquees, which they tripped of every thing valuable belonging to Officers and privates It happened, at the ame time, that they entered a tore tent, next to Mr. Baker's marquee, Where I lay on a palankeen, a kind of travelling canopy—bed, reembling a camp bed, the upper part was arched over with curved bamboo, and