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Barzillai brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat 

 and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, 

 and honey, and butter, and cheese of kine, and sheep, for David, 

 and for the people that were with him : for they said the people 

 are hungry, and weary, and thirsty in the wilderness." 



The more I saw of the Hindoos in those remote districts, the 

 more I perceived the truth of Orme's remark, that Hindostan has 

 been inhabited from the earliest antiquity, by a people who have 

 no resemblance, either in their figure, or manners, with any of the 

 nations contiguous to them ; and that although conquerors have 

 established themselves at different times, in various parts of India, 

 yet the original inhabitants have lost very little of their original 

 character. 



A few of the Guzerat brahmins, especially at Zindore and 

 Chandode, were men of education, who had studied at Benares, 

 and were masters of the Sanscreet language, that inexh?ustible 

 mine of Hindoo literature, art, and science ; which, Sir William 

 Jones says, is " a most wonderful structure ; more perfect than the 

 Greek, more copious than the Latin ; and more exquisitely refined 

 than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both 

 in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could 

 possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong indeed, that 

 no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them 

 to have sprung from some common source, which perhaps no 

 longer exists/' 



Those towns on the banks of the Nerbudda, so famous For 

 brahmin seminaries, contain numerous schools for the education of 

 other boys : these are generally in the open air, on the shady side 



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