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lish artillery l'or his late successes, than to the prowess of his gene- 

 rals: this irritated the peshwa's friends; from high words they 

 proceeded to a furious combat, in which one of the opposite party 

 lost his life, and another left his hand and broken scimitar on the 

 field. 



Finding the enemy retreated after every engagement, and yet 

 continued near enough to molest us and cut off our supplies, know- 

 ing also that harassed European infantry were incapable of pur- 

 suing flying cavalry, and that our Mahratta allies would never ad- 

 vance half a mile from the British line, Ragobah assembled his 

 principal generals and the English commander to a council of war 

 in the durbar tent, when it was determined no longer to follow the 

 enemy in the northern parts of Guzerat, but to penetrate into the 

 Deccan without delay, and endeavour by quick marches to 

 reach Poonah, the Mahratta capital, before the setting in of the 

 rains. 



Many of us regretted the intended march to the southern dis- 

 tricts without seeing the imperial city of Ahmedabad, the metro- 

 polis of Guzerat, celebrated in oriental history as the occasional 

 residence of the Mogul emperors, and still indicating many 

 splendid remains of ancient grandeur. Deprived of this gratifica- 

 tion, we commenced our march southwards, towards Neriad: de- 

 tached parties of the enemies cavalry hovered near us, and en- 

 deavoured to retard our progress, but were always repulsed with 

 little loss on our side. They had not yet encamped in the country 

 through which our route now lay, we therefore found its natural 

 beauties undiminished; and although deficient in picturesque 

 inequality of hill and dale, it was covered with enclosures highly 



