﻿I3B NARRATIVE OF A ROUTE 



municate at Dewilmurry as at Rajarum ; and fo pro- 

 ceeded on; when the meflenger, who appeared to be 

 much furprized at our not paying obedience to the 

 meflage, went off. About eleven o'clock we arrived 

 at Dewilmurry ; and, after croffing the river, en- 

 camped on the oppofite fhore, within the Mahratta 

 territory. Our wants in grain having become very 

 preffing, the people of the village cheerfully opened 

 their Ihops, and fupplicd us abundantly with every 

 thing we flood in need of. 



We had obferved two or three men following our 

 rear, all the way from Rajarum; but little fufpetted 

 that it was the advance of the Goaad chief's party, 

 who had fent a meift^nger to us in the morning. He 

 arrived about an hour after us at Dtwilmurry^ and 

 immediately fcnt a meffage, requiring to fee my pafs. 

 It was accordingly fent him; whcii he fliewed every 

 refpecl to it, and requefted an interview with me, 

 which was likewifc agreed upon. He came about 

 noon, efcorted by his attendants, and, after mutual 

 falutations, a converfation, through the medium of 

 an interpreter, took place. He apologized much for 

 the ill treatment I had received in his country; and 

 lexprelfcd fome fatisfa6iion, that the people who had 

 attacked me had met with their deftrts. He affured 

 me that he had no knowledge of my intention of going 

 through his country, or he would have provided 

 againlt any accidents of that kind; and was grieved 

 for what we muft have fuffered in our retreat during 

 fuch excelTive hot weather. He concluded by ex- 

 prclfing a hope that 1 would look over it, and not 

 make any complaint againfl him to the government at 

 Nagpour. I replied, that, not having fuftained any 

 material injury, and, as he exprcfi'ed a great deal of 

 contrition at what had happened, I fliould not prefef 

 any complaint againd him. 



Upon inquiring his name, he told me it was Loll 

 Shaw; that he had lately come from Nagpour ^ to take 



charge 



