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ing with milk and honey:" and when the Hindoos and Moguls 

 at this day are describing a pleasant and well-cultivated district 

 they distinguish it as, in scripture language, " a land of brooks of 

 water, of fountains and springs; a land of wheat and barley, of 

 vines, fig-trees and pomegranates, a land of oil olive and honey." 



Our own army, both Europeans and sepoys, had comfortable 

 winter-quarters at Dhuboy; the public buildings and largest 

 houses were appropriated for their accommodations: and the prin- 

 cipal caravansary, situated on the border of the tank, was con- 

 verted into an hospital. These reservoirs were seldom thought 

 complete without a caravansary for the convenience of travellers, 

 and a temple for the worship of the deity. Some of them are 

 very extensive. Dr. Buchanan mentions a dilapidated tank in the 

 Mysore, so large, that in a country where labour is extremely cheap 

 it would cost more than three thousand guineas to remove the 

 mud collected in the bottom, and to put it into order. 



However unhealthy may be a winter encampment in Guzerat, 

 I think it far preferable to the extreme heat which I have so often 

 mentioned; we had not indeed the simoom of Arabia, nor the 

 sirocco of Italy, but we experienced the mingled effects of the 

 scorching heat of the former, and the languor occasioned by the 

 latter. A scarcity of w r ater in such situations was a dreadful evil, 

 which we frequently encountered; I remember almost dying of 

 thirst, when I had emptied my own canline for some wounded 

 soldiers, and entreated a friend to give me a few drops without 

 effect; his was almost exhausted, and when there is but little water 

 in a leather canline, the hot wind soon dries it up. Often, dining 

 a short slumber in my palanquin, have I realized the affecting de- 



