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press his propensity to turning Mdiat be saw into 

 licIicLile. 



After, sitting about tM'enty minutes, we asked 

 peruHSsion to depart, and while the customary gifts 

 on taking leave were bringing, we M^ere desired 

 from the Deo to require something of him. The 

 return to this generosity was easy enough, and mc 

 accordingly implored the favour of bis holiness on 

 our countr}', and his prayers for its prosperity in 

 general, and our own in particular, which were 

 vouchsafed, and in such a mode of expression as 

 to lt*ive an obvious opening to infer that sucb 

 lavour and prayers had not been without their pre- 

 vious effect in raising England and Englishmen to 

 such a pitch of aggrandizement and general happi- 

 ness. We bad, therefore, only to beseech a con- 

 tinuance of his regard. 



At going away the Deo gave each of us, in- 

 cluding the Bruhmncharec, some rice and spices. 

 We made our reverences and departed. 



The Deo did not appear to us to merit the appel- 

 lation of Dectcana. His countenance is expressive 

 and not disagreeable, bis eyes keen, complexion 

 rather fair : he seemed about bfty-five, but is, they 

 say, five years older, and is apparently, (but he did 

 not rise,) of nnddle stature. 



We saw also his son Bawa Deo, sitting at some 

 distance, in the apartment witb the Deo, among 

 some Bramins. He is a fat, dark, but not very ill 

 although rather stupid looking youth, about live- 

 and-twenty. He took no notice of our salaam, 

 farther than vacantly staring at us ; of the two, the 

 son looked b}- far the most like a Deezvana in its 

 usual signification. 



I HAD nearly forgotten to mention that during 

 the visit the Bruhmucharce was invited to see the 

 symbol of the divinity, the sacred stone, to wbose 

 presence it was not judged advisable to admit us, 



although 



