1 90 ^Ifoph XJl Doulats 



the fighting elephants, which I have men- 

 tioned, he has with him fighting antelopes, 

 fighting buffaloes, and fighting rams, in 

 great numbers : and laftly, of the feathered 

 kind (befides hawks), he carries with him 

 feverai hundred pigeons, fome fighting 

 cocks, and an endlefs variety of nightin- 

 gales, parrots, minos, &c. all of which are 

 carried along with his tents. 



What I have hitherto enumerated are 

 the appendages of the Nabob perfonally ; 

 befides which, there is a large public Ba- 

 zar, or, in other words, a moving town, at- 

 tends his camp, confifting of fhopkeepers 

 and artificers of all kinds, money changers, 

 dancing women, &c. &c. 5 fo that, upon 

 the moil moderate calculation, the number 

 of ibuls in his camp cannot be reckoned at 

 lefs than twenty thoufand. 



There are generally about twenty or thir- 

 ty of the gentlemen of his Court, who at- 

 tend him on his hunting parties, and are 

 the companions of his fports and pleafures. 

 They are principally his own relations in 

 different degrees of confanguinity , and 



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