MILITARY AD VENTURES. 185 



After tiffin, when I was taking my 

 afternoon siesta, an attendant announced 

 a man who wished to speak to me, and on 

 my desiring him to be admitted, he told 

 me he had been sent by the English 

 political agent to search for me every- 

 where, and to find out what had become 

 of me. He said he had been in the two 

 villages in which I had been imprisoned, 

 and that the people in both villages had 

 been greatly distressed at finding I had 

 left the comfortable room they had pre- 

 pared for me, as they had intended to 

 forward me on, in all honour and state, to 

 the head quarters of the English army, 

 but that I had evidently taken a dislike to 

 them, which they extremely regretted, 

 and I had gone off without taking leave 

 of any of them. They felt disappointed 

 at this, as they had a handsome present, 



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