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chandise 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 alternately, a set 

 were always ready to receive them. 



Most of the bazar or market people travel- 

 led at night, and exposed their goods for sale 

 from eight or nine o'clock in the morning, un- 

 til dark. The route was often towards the 

 Thibet mountains, and a part of the army ac- 

 companied the tents and market. 



in the marvellous. The number of followers of an army 

 in India, can scarcely be conceived by any that have not 

 seen them. A Gentleman had the curiosity to employ 

 a person to count the number of followers of the 73rd. 

 King's Regiment as they passed through the gates of the 

 city of Patna^ and I was informed they amounted to 

 upwards of nineteen thousand. The strength of the 

 Regiment at the time, could not have been more than 

 700 me 3 as the sick were transported by water. 



