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officer in command, being applied to for the refponfi- 

 bility of their condu6t, faid he Avould anfwer for their 

 fidelity. 



May 5th. Having now fupplied ourfelves with 

 grain for feven days, werefumed our journey. The 

 road led along the wefl bank of tlTe Baun Gunga river, 

 through a very wild country; and we had no fooner 

 paffed the Mahratta boundary, than we entered a 

 thick foreft. The mountains appeared to come clofe 

 down to the eaft bank of the river, and every profpe6t 

 I had of them feemed to coincide with the accounts I 

 had received of the wild country in that quarter. Soon 

 after croffing the confines, I heard the found of tom- 

 tovis for a confiderable diftance, which was evidently 

 a fignal of alarm; and as we proceeded, the ruins of 

 feveral villages occurred. About eleven o'clock, the 

 fun being intenfely hot, and there being no water near 

 the road, I was under the neceffity of halting, until 

 my people, and cattle, could be refrefiied with water 

 from the Baun Gunsra. That river was in general from 

 half a mile to a mile from the road, but being fepa- 

 rated from us by a thick foreft, it was with difficulty 

 we could penetrate to it. Having proceeded about 

 feventeen miles to the ruins of the little village of 

 Unnar, I halted at that place, until three in the after- 

 noon. The extreme heat of the day would have in- 

 duced me to halt here for the night ; but it was necef- 

 fary to proceed, and to crofs the Godavery before dark, 

 in order that the Nizam's people might not have time 

 to obftruft our paffage. The road continued gradually 

 defcending, and the foil was now wholly rock and 

 coarfe fand. Upon our arrival near the Godavery, I 

 difcovered a large fort upon an eminence, at the coif- 

 fluence of ihe, Baun Gunga; and with my glals could 

 perceive a white flag. The found of tom-toms foon 

 after apprized us, that although the villages were de- 

 ferted, the woods were full of men; and that the peo- 

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