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mon kind of tent; and perhaps a shameana, or canopy, belong- 

 ing to the paughea, pitched at one end of a street, formed by the 

 horses of the troop, picketed in two lines, fronting each other. 

 The routy serves to shelter the troopers and their furniture in bad 

 weather, and as a place of assembly for the corps morning and 

 evening. At other times the trooper generally posts himself, with 

 his saddle and arms, in front of his horse; there he also sleeps, hav- 

 ing nothing more than what he can conveniently carry to any dis- 

 tance upon his horse. There are generally a number of tattoos, 

 small horses, attached to each paughea; which, while the army is 

 under march, are dispatched with the syses, or grooms, to forage; 

 by which means they generally get to the ground as soon as the 

 main body of the army, laden with provender for the paughea 

 horses; or they sally forth in quest of it as soon as they have dis- 

 posed of their burthen on the new ground ; though the failure of 

 this reliance would not distress the Mahrattas, who are not yet 

 sufficiently pampered by wealth to despise that necessary part of 

 military duty, Or to affect being above providing provender for the 

 aoble animal who administers so effectually to their ease and ad- 

 vantage. 



Over and above the foregoing constituent parts of a Mahratta 

 army, it is to be observed that they have now introduced large 

 trains of artillery, and formidable bodies of regular infantry ; the 

 organization of which being copies of our own, needs no par- 

 ticular explanation: I shall therefore proceed to the orders for 

 marching. 



These orders, abstracted from emergencies, are signified by 



