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The nosegays of roses, mogrees, and jessamine, gathered in the cool 

 of the morning, and brought in with a basket of fruit and vege- 

 tables to the English breakfast-table in India, are very pleasing 

 and refreshing: so are the Japan roses, oleanders, and other richly- 

 coloured flowers which ornament the gindey and ewer presented 

 to each guest for ablution after dinner. 



We continued in an inactive state at Narranseer until the 15th 

 of April, when an express arrived with the interesting intelligence 

 that Ragobah's generals had collected his scattered forces, and 

 were then on their march to Cambay; but as the enemy were near 

 them, in great force, they requested that Ragobah and the English 

 detachment would proceed as soon as possible, as a speedy junc- 

 tion would be of infinite advantage. 



On a confirmation of this news, we struck our tents on the 

 sultry plains of Narranseer, and by short marches arrived at Darah, 

 where the junction so ardently desired was effected on the 19th of 

 April. Ragobah's army was said to consist of thirty thousand 

 cavalry and infantry, with about twice as many camp-followers, 

 women and children ; but in reality, from this motley mass, there 

 were not more than twelve thousand fighting men, commanded by 

 four of Ragobah's principal generals; they narrowly escaped the 

 ministerial army on the banks of the river Sabermally, who 

 reached the pass too late to prevent their crossing, not expecting 

 that so large a force could have proceeded with such rapidity; 

 for, eluding the vigilance of the. enemy, they marched sixty coss, 

 or ninety English miles, without halting, followed by their ele- 

 phants, camels, bazar, and baggage. 



Govind Row Guykwar, an independent chieftain of Guzerat, 



