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Some with extensive enclosures, made of cloth 

 and bamboos, about seven feet high, forming a 

 kind of wall round each tent, of a hundred yards 

 or more in circumference. 



In the rainy season, or whenever the ground 

 was damp or wet, square wooden tables, with 

 feet, about ten inches high, and four feet diameter, 

 made to fit close to one another, were placed in 

 the tents, forming a floor which covered the whole 

 space within; on these, carpets were spread, 

 which made them perfectly dry and comfortable. 



A market accompanied them, supplied with 

 every article the country afforded, consisting of 

 from forty to sixty thousand persons, or perhaps 

 more,* who carried their grain and merchandise 



* The reader may well be surprised at the immense num. 

 ber; yet he may be assured that I am not dealing in the 

 marvellous. The number of followers of an army in India, 

 can scarcely be conceived by any that have not seen them. 

 A gentleman had the curiosity to employ a person to count 

 the number of followers of the 73rd King's Regiment, as 

 they passed through the gates of the city of Patna, and I 

 was informed they amounted to upwards of nineteen thou- 

 sand. The strength of the regiment, at the time, could not 



