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Way and left us alone. Yet it mull: not be fnp- 

 pofed that they are always fo civil. In Sep- 

 tember fome Galllvates failed out of the port, 

 having an Englijh fhip for their convoy. It 

 was attacked before our eyes, and in the face 

 of the other Englijh fhips, by eight or nine pi- 

 ratical Galllvates which kept up a continual 

 fire for a couple of hours, without any body 

 being able to give afhfhmce, on account of the 

 tide. The end of this was, that the pirates 

 fucceeded in taking two or three of the other 

 Galllvates ; upon which they left the Englijh 

 fhip to purfue her voyage without any farther 

 snoleftation. 



I am unwilling to omit one or two accounts 

 belonging to political intelligence, though I 

 cannot be anfwerable for their truth. To- 

 wards the end of April, 1748, died the great 

 Mogol Mahomed} of the venereal difeafe ac- . 

 cording to the Jefuit Tiejent baler's account. 

 His only {onAchmed, by a concubine, fucceed- 

 ed him, and was then on his march returning 

 from Seranda, where he had defeated the army 

 of the Patans, who had undertaken an irrup- 

 tion into the empire from the mountains of 

 Kandahar, Of the ftate of the Per/tan em- 

 pire, I had the following account. Nadir 



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