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wounded, and burying the dead: the heat was intense, and the 

 plains of Arras not affording a drop of water, we proceeded to- 

 wards the banks of the Myhi; but, unable to reach that noble 

 river, we encamped at Bettassee, a good village, where providen- 

 tially meeting with some large wells, and a tank not quite ex- 

 hausted, we remained the next day to perform the necessary am- 

 putations, and administer such comfort as we could to the sick 

 and wounded; our flying hospital now consisting of more than 

 four hundred patients, most of them in violent fevers in conse- 

 quence of the extreme heat, and the wounds received in the battle 

 of Arras. 



About this time Ragobah, or rather Ragonath Row, peshwa of 

 the Mahratta empire, signed a phinnaun, or grant, by which he 

 engaged himself to pay the English detachment under colonel 

 Keating employed in his service, the sum of thirty lacs of rupees 

 on his arrival at Poonah, and re-establishment in the government 

 of the Mahratta empire; specifying that this donation is intended 

 in lieu of plunder, prize-money, and all demands of that kind. 

 This is a usual method of recompensing European troops for their 

 services to the Indian princes. 



I have already mentioned the inconvenience and confusion 

 occasioned by calling the same person by different names. In this 

 instrument of royalty, Ragobah styles himself Ragonauth Row, 

 Ballajee Peshwa, Pundit Purdun, of the Mahratta empire. This 

 was his title as sovereign. Ragonauth Row was his name of re- 

 spect; Ragobah that by which he was generally addressed, and 

 called by the army; and Dadah-Saheb, the familiar and endeared 

 name used by his family. 



