CHAPTER XXXV. 



Ihe last chapter concluded with the evacuation of Baroche, 

 Dhuboy, and all the valuable districts belonging to the East India 

 Company in Guzerat. When the yacht on which the chief and 

 council embarked from Baroche arrived on the southern banks of 

 the Nerbudda, we had the mortification to behold the Mahratta 

 flag waving over the ramparts. It was the first time the natives 

 had witnessed that standard of oppression. Their tears and other 

 expressions of sorrow on that sad occasion have been recorded; 

 some of them accompanied us to Surat in hopes of procuring situ- 

 ations, under the English government, either there or at Bombay. 



Thus were the civil and military servants on the Baroche esta- 

 blishment, obliged to leave that once happy settlement, in the midst 

 of the rainy season, and to seek an asylum at Surat, uutil the navi- 

 gation opened to Bombay at the breaking up of the south-west 

 monsoon in October. The three months now spent there afforded 

 but little novelty or interest to a former description in 177^ 5 and 

 several subsequent visits. 



The double government which had then existed in Surat, from 

 the conclusion of the treaty entered into by the East India Com- 

 pany with the nabob's father, Moyen Odeen, in the middle of the 



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