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The nabob of Cambay seemed at length to have ingratiated 

 himself into Ragobah's good opinion, and made him an offer of 

 taking the field and joining the allied army. Few characters could 

 be more constrasted than these sovereigns: had the heart of the 

 nabob been equal to his abilities, he might have swayed the im- 

 perial sceptre, while Ragobah daily exhibited more superstition 

 and fanaticism than Aurungzebe ever pretended to, and equalled 

 the sanctity of the visionaries and mystics in the professional castes 

 of Hindoo devotees. Duino- the detention of the British forces at 

 Cambay, when anxiously expecting a junction with Ragobah's 

 army, an express arrived from his principal general, containing 

 intelligence of importance: the British commander, after wailing a 

 proper lime, sent an aid-du-camp to the Mahratta durbar, for the 

 necessary information; who was told Ragobah was at his devotions, 

 and the lucky moment for opening the dispatches not arrived. On 

 sending again the next morning the colonel received for answer 

 that the Mahratta sovereign had not finished his religious cere- 

 monies. One day in the month of March occurred, during our 

 detention at Cambay, which was marked in Ragobah's horoscope 

 as peculiarly unlucky: an inauspicious planet would on that day 

 affect his destiny, unless averted by a variety of rites and cere- 

 monies: the most pious priests and eminent astrologers were con- 

 vened to assist the brahmin sovereign; on this eventful day " big with 

 the fale of Caesar and of Rome," Ragobah came forth at day-break 

 bare-headed, and naked, except a cloth round his loins, watching the 

 rising of the sun, and remained until noon with his eyes stedfastly 

 fixed on the glorious orb, which shone with uncommon fervency; 



