362 GANGETIG HINDOOSTAN. 



are negleded by the natives, who have neither bOTfes, camels, 

 or afies, fuch as are brought from, other countries. 



Pkople cf thj. people of AJJcim are a bafe unprincipled- natioHrand' 



have no fixed religion. They follow no rule but that of theif 

 own inclination,, and make the approbation of their own vicious 

 minds the teft of the propriety of their acflions. They do* nbt 

 adopt any mode of worlhip pra6tifed cither by heathens or 

 Mabommedans, nor do they concur with any of the knb\Vb! 

 fe6ts which prevale amongft mankind ; unlike the Pagans of 

 Hindoojian, they do not reje61; viiluals which have been drefied' 

 by MuJJ'dmen, and they abftain from no flefll' except h'u'man.. 

 They even eat animals that have died a natural death. 



Ikvaded vh Colonel Dqto^ voL iii. p. 357, informs us, that it was iii-' 



^' vaded in 1665, by Emir Jmnla, the great general of Aureng- 



zebe. The king of AJfam had given the provocation, by falling 

 down with a great fleet of boats as far as Dacca^ and, taking 

 advantages of the civil wars of Indiay plundered all this part of 

 Bengal, jumla^ in purfuance of his mailer's orders, took the' 

 field, defeated the monarch of JJJatJi, and forced him to quit 

 his kingdom. A more powerful enemy in turn obliged Jumla 

 to quit his conqueft, the periodical rains and inundations fur- 

 prifed the vicSior ; it was with great difficulty he retreated. A 

 fatal licknefs pervaded his army, and the general himfelf funk 

 before that foe which yields to none. 



Soil. The foil of AJJam is replete with nitre. Vaft quantities of 



gunpowder are made in that kingdom, round, and fmall like the 

 EngliJIy, and very ftrong. It is pretended, that the ufe of artil- 

 lery and fire arms was the invention of this country. It is cer- 

 4- tain 



