150 VIZIER'S SPORTING. 



on camels, carts, bullocks, tattoos, (small ponies,) 

 asses, and on men's backs on bangys. The day 

 before the Vizier sallied forth, a set of tents, with 

 all their appendages, were forwarded and pitched 

 on the spot fixed on for their first day's halt, and 

 another set at the same time, were sent on to the 

 next stage, so that by being forwarded alter- 

 nately, a set were always ready to receive them. 



Most of the bazar or market people travelled 

 at night, and exposed their goods for sale from 

 eight or nine o'clock in the morning, until dark. 

 The route was often towards the Thibet mount- 

 ains, and a part of the army accompanied the tents 

 and market. 



Early in the morning, his Highness left his 

 palace at Lucknow, with a number of noisy in- 

 struments playing before him : as soon as he was 

 clear of the city and suburbs, a line was formed 

 with the Nawaub Vizier in the centre, generally 

 on an elephant elegantly caparisoned, with two 

 spare elephants, one on each side of him. The one 

 on his left* bore his state howdah empty; the 



have been more than 700 men, as the sick were transported 

 by water. 



* This elephant was thought the finest animal of the kind 



