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ing gum-arabic, and affording cover to immense herds of antelopes. 

 This spot forming a part of my district under Dhuboy, I was 

 well supplied with venison and other game. A little powder and 

 ball procured me an antelope, and for a rupee I could at any time 

 purchase a deer, with two or three pea-fowl. For the more certain 

 destruction of antelopes and deer in that country, the sporlsman 

 covers himself with a moveable arbour of green boughs; which 

 effectually concealing him from the unsuspecting animals, they 

 become an easy prey. The peacocks, doves, and green pigeons 

 found near the Guzerat villages, are nearly as tame as poultry in a 

 farm yard. 



It is unnecessary to particularise different stages and encamp- 

 ments on this tour: we travelled with two sets of tents and ser- 

 vants; by which means, without a deprivation of comfort at one 

 station, we found every necessary prepared for us on arriving at 

 the next. Throughout this excursion we generally met with mango, 

 tamarind, or banian-trees, on the banks of rivers, the margin of 

 a lake, or near a public well: water being the first consideration 

 for the cattle and attendants necessary in a country where furni- 

 ture, beds, and every useful article must be carried with us. Hay, 

 fire-wood, milk, butter, and lamp-oil, are supplied gratis to most 

 travellers, according to the custom of Guzerat; and in that respect 

 we found very little difference whether travelling in the English 

 purgunnas, or the dominions of a foreign prince. 



Reposing under contiguous trees, we generally saw yogees, 

 "osannees, Mahomedan dervises, and other religious mendicants, 

 who travel over Hindoslan; and often met with large caravans of 

 banjarrees, or vanjarrahs, a set of merchants, who do not belong 



