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of water] and proposing to the Gentlemen of 

 the party, that they should fire ball with 

 pistols at a flower of the lotus, growing 

 in the centre of the tank, to ascertain who 

 was the best marksman. On the opposite 

 side, at a distance of not more than forty yards 

 from the water, was a public road, or path- 

 way., on which a constant string of his camp 

 followers were passing at the time, and I am 

 certain that more than a hundred balls were 

 fired, many of them rebounding from the 

 water across the road, a sight which made 

 me shudder; fortunately no person was 

 wounded. 



On all occasions he seemed to have little 

 consideration for the lives of his subjects, par- 

 ticularly when following his sport in pursuit 

 of animals; yet it is said that he always pro- 

 vided comfortably for such as were maimed, 

 and for the families of any that were killed; 

 and he seldom, and with much reluctance, 

 ordered any punishments. He had a strong 

 attachment to arid friendship for Colonel John 



