192 VIZIER'S. 



Serif Ally invited me into his howdah to par- 

 take of some refreshments,, which invitation 

 I willingly accepted, as I was both hungry 

 and thirsty, the weather being very hot. 



The food consisted of bread (resembling 

 pan-cakes,) composed of flour, well soaked 

 with ghee [clarified butter] and baked on an 

 iron plate; with kabobs, \vhich is meat well 

 seasoned, cut into small pieces, then stuck on 

 a wooden skewer and roasted. Unfortunately 

 I had always a strong aversion to garlic, with 

 which the kabobs were very much impreg- 

 nated ; politeness induced me to eat some of 

 them, much against my inclination, by which 

 I suffered severely all that evening and the 

 next day. 



A Captain of an Indiaman purchased two 

 of the largest draught horses he could get in 

 this kingdom, and carried them to Calcutta., 

 where he sold them to some one, who resold 

 them to the Vizier for the sum [as I was in- 

 formed] of ten thousand rupees. (1250<) 



