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and, as a gentleman should travel, with 

 every thing requisite for health and com- 

 fort. I had also provided two tattus for 

 the use of my followers ; a tent, which I had 

 been fortunate enough to procure, had been 

 sent on the previous night, and I hoped to 

 find it pitched and breakfast ready on my 

 arrival at the place where we should com- 

 plete our twenty miles march. I found 

 the Bengalee a most obliging and thought- 

 full attendant ; he appeared so much to 

 study my wishes and tastes that I often 

 marvelled at my good fortune in picking 

 him up : the adventures we had passed 

 through together, had brought us to think 

 of each other more as friends than master 

 and servant. He told me he had been in 

 an officer's service in Bengal ; had after- 

 wards married a girl in the village where 

 he had first joined me, and assisted my 



