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NARRATIVE of a JOURNEY from AGRA 

 to OUJEIN. 



By William Hunter, Efq. 



XJEFORR entering on the following narrative, it will 

 be proper to detail lome of the principal circumilances. 

 .which led to the journey. That is the fu])je6l of it. 

 About the month of Septemher 179O, Sixdiah, who 

 was engaged in a war with the Rajahs oiJayanagar and 

 Joudhpoor, but had, for about two years, remained 

 quiet at Matra^ and confided the operations of the 

 campaign to his generals, thought it expedient (al- 

 though iiis arms had lately been crowned with iignal 

 fucCefs, at Meet' t ah, were, the whole force o{ Joudhpoor 

 was, with great flaughter, overthrown) to take the 

 field in perfon. 



When- his intention was certainly known, Major 

 Palmer, the Englljh relident at his court, who was 

 then at Agra, offered to accompany him on the ex- 

 pedition. He replied, that as lie expelled to return 

 foon, he was unwilling to put the relident to an unne- 

 ceffary inconvenience. Sindiah directed his courfe 

 towards Jayanagar, which being deftitutc of the means 

 of defence, and governed by a prince, young, unex- 

 perienced, devoted to pleafure, incapable of ferious 

 attention, and irrefolute in his councils, was thrown 

 into the greateft confternation. The Rajah and his 

 ally of Joudhpoor gladly fubmitted to any conditions 

 of peace that Sindiah thought proper to dictate. 

 They agreed to pay a heavy tine, and a confiderable 

 annual tribute ; and they ceded the fortrefs and dillri6l 

 of Ajhnere, w^hich had been lurrendered to them, in 

 a treacherous, or cowardly manner, during the war, by 

 the officer to whom Sindiah intrufted their defence. 



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