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We marched to Neriad through a continuation of the lovelv 

 country just mentioned. This city was the capital of Conda Row, 

 uncle to Govind Row, one of Ragobah's principal partizans, then 

 with his army at the head of eight thousand cavalry; Conda Row 

 had also promised to join his standard with a considerable force; 

 but uniting with his other nephew, Futty Sihng, one of the most 

 powerful chieftains in Guzerat, they went over to the opposite 

 party, and fought for them during the whole campaign. 



These princes were all styled Guickwar, in addition to their 

 family name, as Futty Sihng Row Guickwar, Govind Row Guick- 

 war, and Conda Row Guickwar; the word literally means a cow- 

 keeper, which, although a low employment in general, has, in this 

 noble family among the Hindoos, who venerate that animal, be- 

 come a title of great importance. As they possess a large do- 

 main in Guzerat contiguous to the British provinces, and as their 

 history is blended with the Mahrattas, and in the political and 

 territorial arrangements with the English in that part of India, 

 I shall detail the .accounts I collected with some difficulty on 

 our march and subsequent encampments in the Guickwar do- 

 minions. 



By the conquests obtained over the Moguls in Guzerat, the 

 beginning of the eighteenth century, the Mahrattas annexed the 

 greater part of this rich country to their rising empire: these con- 

 quests were gained entirely by Pilajee, and his son Damajee, two 

 renowned generals of the Guickwar family, who thereby possessed 

 so much power, wealth, and influence in Guzerat, that the Poonah 

 government, fearful of their adopting the system of the Mogul 

 nabobs, and becoming totally independent, gave them a jaghire, 



