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«' kinds, fome for quail, and others very large for fifliing, 

 « which are carried along with him upon elephants, attended 

 «' by filhermen, fo as to be always ready for throwing into 

 ," anv river or lake that may be met with. Every article that 

 *' can contribute to luxury or pleafure, is like wife carried along 

 " with the army. A great many carts are loaded with the 

 *< Ganges water, and even ice is tranfported for cooling the 

 " drink. The fruits of the feafoa and frefli vegetables are 

 *' daily fent to him from his gardens, by bearers Rationed at 

 « the diftance of every ten miles, by which means each article 

 ** is conveyed, day or night, at the rate of four miles an hour. 

 <* Befides the animals already mentioned, there are alfo fighting 

 <' antelopes, buffaloes, and rams, in great numbers ; alfo feveral 

 " hundred pigeons, fome fighting cocks, and a vaft variety of 

 *' parrots, nightingales, Sec. 8cc. 



" The Nabob, with the attending gentlemen, proceed in a 

 *' regular moving court or durbar, and thus they keep con- 

 *' verfmg together, and looking out for game. A great many 

 " foxes, hares, jackals, and fometimes deer, are picked up by 

 ** the dogs as they pafs along. The hawks are carried imme- 

 *' diately before the elephants, and let fly at whatever game is 

 " fprung for them, which is generally partridges, buflards, 

 " quails, and different kinds of herons ; thefe lafl affording 

 " excellent fport with the falcons, or fharp- winged hawks. 

 ** Wild boars are ftarted fometimes, and either fhot or run 

 " down by the dogs and horfemen. Hunting the tiger is, 

 •' however, looked upon as the principal diverfion, and the dif- 

 " covery of one of thefe animals is accounted a matter of great 



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