CHAPTER XIX. 



On the 27th of May, the English detachment encamped near the 

 walls of Baroche, and continued there until the 8th of June : this 

 city then belonged to the English, and having many friends there 

 in the Company's service, I resided among them during our stay, 

 and doubly enjoyed the comforts of domestic life, after a fatiguing 

 campaign in the hottest season of the year; when, except to change 

 them, I had seldom taken off my clothes, or slept out of a pa- 

 lanquin. 



Baroche is situated on an eminence, on the north banks of 

 the Nerbudda, in the twenty-second degree of north latitude; 

 about forty miles from Sural, sixty from Cambay, and twenty- 

 six from the entrance of the river; it is two miles and a half 

 in circumference, fortified in the oriental manner with high walls, 

 perforated for musketry, and flanked by towers, mounted with 

 cannon; there are two principal gates, and several smaller out- 

 lets: the suburbs are extensive and populous, and the surround- 

 ing country fertile and pleasant. Baroche, from its natural situa- 

 tion and strength of the works, may, for an Asiatic city, be 

 deemed a formidable fortress, and cost the English some loss and 



