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Rh and embellihed with rich furniture, the top was hung with beautiful taels and adorned with gay trapings; and the ides, head, and foot were decorated with valuable ilver ornaments. In hort it was elegantly finihed, and worth, at leat ix hundred rupees; for which reaon, uch vehicles are eldom kept but by people of condition. Every palankeen is attended by tight ervants, four of whom, alternately, carry it, much in the ame manner as our edan chairs are carried in this country. But to return---the, villagers having entered thetore-tent above mentioned, bore me uddenly away to a field about half a mile from the camp, on the conveyance I have jut decribed to you, which