152 VIZIER'S SPORTING. 



ammunition elephant, his adopted son, Vizier 

 Ally,* took his station on a fine animal, also 

 superbly caparisoned, with his prime minister, 

 Ussan Huza Kawn, on the left of his state ele- 

 phant ; while all the rest of his court arranged 

 themselves to the right and left, agreeably to their 

 rank, of which they were extremely punctilious. 



The line of elephants on the march amounted 

 to four or five hundred, and at each extremity of 

 them were the cavalry, forming altogether a 

 curved line, with the centre pointing forward. 

 Close before the Vizier ran two men with bags of 

 money in each hand, of different degrees of 

 value ; and immediately before them several men 

 carrying hawks of various kinds ; on each side of 

 these, the dog keepers, each holding a brace or 

 leash of grey-hounds, f The line thus formed, 

 proceeded straight towards the tents, indiscrimi- 

 nately over cultivated and uncultivated ground, 



* Who, after the death of the Nawaub, ascended the 

 throne, and was notorious for having massacred Mr. Cherry, 

 and several other English gentlemen. He died at Calcutta, 

 in the year 1818, after a confinement of 17 years. 



j- The author was disgusted to see some beautiful English 

 dogs, coupled with country dogs, ill formed, and without 

 a single hair on any part of their bodies. 



