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pfcaping from the cruelty of thefc favages. I dcfired 

 |:he man and boy to raife themfelves up, when 'they 

 folicited my protedion, and permilTion to follow among 

 my party; alledging, that, but for my taking com- 

 paiTion on their fituation, and feeding them, thfeymuT 

 undoubtedly perifh. The firfl requcd I readily granted; 

 but, as to the fecond, I told him that I had been only- 

 enabled to travel in thefe wilds, with fo many people, 

 by the moft provident precaution; and by njaking 

 every man carry his food for a certain number of 

 days, until frefh fupplies of grain could he procured: 

 that it would not be juli in me to deprive any man of 

 his daily allowance, to give to them : but, as there 

 were many Hindoos among my people, they might 

 prevail on fome of them to part with a little of their 

 grain for immediate fubfifience; and that in three days 

 more we fhould arrive at Byragur^ where their wants 

 woukl be more effedually relieved. 



The conference being ended, I refumed my journey 

 for the day, and was no more importuned by the 

 Goofaigns ; but I obferved them afterwards among the 

 fepoys, and received many grateful acknowledgments 

 from them for the protedion I had afforded them. I 

 found alfo, on inquiry, that the Hindoo fepoys had fed 

 them. 



April 17th. Our journey was continued, with- 

 out any remarkable occurrence, through the hills and 

 jungles, to within nine miles of Byragur, where we 

 arrived this day. This place was formerly annexed 

 to Chanda, and the country ftill bears that name, though 

 they are now feparate Subahdaries. Bishun Pundit 

 was at this time Suhahdar of Byragur^ and had rented 

 the country for a fpecific period by contratl. The 

 government was much of the fame nature as that I 

 had met with in Choice fgur. Byragur is confidered 

 by the Mahi'attas as a large town, and may confifl: of 



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