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and sometimes both. They are occasionally surprised, and these 

 marauders have been known to drive off' two or three thousand 

 cattle at a time. The villagers, armed with bows and arrows, at- 

 tack the Cotties when their numbers are not too formidable ; but 

 the latter being always on horseback have greatly the advantage. 

 On account of these predatory incursions, our little escort of ca- 

 valry and Arabs, with the necessary attendants, generally occa- 

 sioned an alarm as we travelled through the country. 



Early the next morning we left Dolcah, recrossed the Saber- 

 matty at Angolah, and reached the village of Bursora, fifteen miles 

 from Dolcah, before the heat of the day. Here we pitched our 

 tents, and remained during the sultry hours. In the evening a ride 

 of twelve miles, over an open cultivated plain, brought us to the 

 gates of Cambay; the distance from thence to Ahmedabad, cither by 

 Kairah as we went, or by Dolcah our returning route, distinguished 

 by the upper or lower road, is only fifty miles. 



On both roads I had an opportunity of revisiting the site of our 

 encampments on the plains of Naranseer, and the garden-houses 

 where we resided at head-quarters during the campaign in Guze- 

 rat: some of those summer palaces were very beautiful, both in 

 situation and architecture. The nabob did not occupy any ot 

 them; he spent his retired hours entirely at Dil Gusha, or Heart- 

 Expanding, a more favourite retreat. Most of those summer- 

 houses are of a slight construction, and, like those in the chief's 

 garden at Baroche, are divided into three pavilions, at a consider- 

 able distance from each other, with canals, fountains, and flower- 

 gardens in the intermediate space. They are generally surrounded 

 by sloping verandas and purdoes, or wet hangings of gunnies, a 



