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puRS£RAM their leader Furferam Bbow, kept themfelves in exercife, and 



diverted our military with their lieges. Mr. Diro?n defcribes, 

 p. 10, II, their artillery in a mod laughable manner; yet they 

 came back in triumph, affifted perhaps by the Bombay brigade, 

 and the hero Captain Little *. They marched northward to 

 Sera., taken in the early days of Jyder, who was formally invefted 

 Soubah of the place. They thence proceeded to Cbitteldroog, a 

 fort of vaft ftrength, feated on a ftupendous rock, to which Mr. 

 Fadetf's, map gives the height of two thoufand fix hundred 

 and forty yards ! ! ! This alfo was one of the early acquilitions 

 of Ayder. Here was confined the crew of the Hannibal, taken 

 by the gallant Suffrein, and delivered, in Augi^ 1782, to the 

 favage Ayder, contrary to every law of war and humanity. 

 Purferam Bhow proceeded under the tuition of our Captain 

 Little, and was taught to take Hooly-Onore, and Bankapoiir, and 

 Simoga, on the banks of the Tungebadra, and fliev/ed him how 

 to gain a complete victory over a large body of Tippoo's forces 

 near Simoga t, commanded by his fon Reza Saib. Purferam, 

 elate with his plumes, forgot he was to join Abercrombie's 

 army, and aflift in the redudion of Seringapatam. He 

 marched toward Biddenore : was followed by Kumtnir ul 

 Dien, and by letters of recal from Lord Coiirjoallis, he haf- 

 tened to co-operate in the original intent of the difcordant alli- 

 ance. Purferam Bbozv loft fight of the battle of February 7, 

 which decided the fate of the tyrant. General Abercrombie, by 



• Dirom, p. 103. See more in Lieutenant Moor's Narrative of the Operations of Captain 

 Little's detachment, p. 169. The reader will find, in p. 129, an accurate view of Chltteldroog. 

 + Dirom, p. 103. 



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