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^rinjaries, ^v'ho, for a handfome gratuity, might be 

 induced to aflift us, and pofiibly to condutl me through 

 the Bujlar territory; in which cafe I fliould be totally 

 independant of the Goands ; not conceiving that they? 

 would ever oppaie me in open, force. 



April 27th. With this- plan in view, I entered 

 upon Ikkut Row's territory, and, after croffing the 

 Baungunga river, encamped near the village o{ Dewtl- 

 murry^ which is fituated on its eaftern bank. This- 

 v/as the moft confiderable Goand hamlet I had feen, 

 and might confift of about fifty huts. An extenfive 

 fpot of ground was cleared and cultivated around it ; 

 and beyond the village fome lofty ranges of hills ap- 

 peared to rife. The river is here a confiderable ftreamy 

 being augmented by the junftion of the Wurda and 

 Wainy Gunga, about three cofs to the north-weftward 

 of this place. 



The ufual refidence of Imkut Row is at Arpilly, 

 about ten cofs diftant from Dewihiurfy, in a N. E. di- 

 reftion among the hills. He is a furdar of five hun- 

 dred horfe in the Mahratta fervice, and was at this 

 time, abfent in command of an expedition againit the 

 di ft rifts of Edilabad and Neermul, befonging to the 

 Nizam : Thefe are feparated from C'nanda only by 

 a range of hills; the paffcs through which had beer> 

 already fecured, to prevent fupplies of grain being 

 carried into the enemy's country. 



The Goands had been fo much alarmed on our ap- 

 proach, that they all fled out of the village ; except-* 

 ing two or three men who had been converted to the 

 Mahommedan faith; and who no fooner perceived 

 that we were travellers, than their fear.s fubhded, and^ 

 after faluting us with the falam aleicum^ they returned 

 to take peaceable poflellion of their dwellings. 



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