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shaped (a mimic, or buffoon). This man, personating a f'akeer, 

 repeated a number of verses on the passion of love with singular 

 address, and that alternate motion of the right and left hand gene- 

 rally adopted by orators. 



The next morning the party visited the dilapidated mausoleum 

 of Baba Rahan, or Bowran, hastening fast to ruin. Returning 

 from thence, they alighted at the village of Vezelpore, about a 

 mile to the westward of Baroche, formerly adorned by the houses 

 and gardens of several English gentlemen, then belonging to that 

 establishment, most delightfully situated near the bank of the Ner- 

 budda: they were now totally neglected, uninhabited, and deso- 

 late; still indicating the remains of beauty in mutilated columns, 

 urns, and other ornaments, which filled their minds with melan- 

 choly. Baroche was always esteemed one of the most flourish- 

 ing and delightful settlements under the Bombay presidency; at 

 this time Mhadajee Sindia only permitted the Company to have 

 a small factory in the city, in charge of one of their civil servants. 

 The higher classes of Hindoos, from religious prejudice, are averse 

 to dwell in houses that have been inhabited by Europeans; those 

 of the lower orders, and of other castes, dare not occupy man- 

 sions which, by giving an idea of wealth, might subject them to 

 the cruel rapacity of the Mahratta government; nor could any 

 individuals, either Hindoos, Mahomedans, or Parsees, safely reside 

 in defenceless habitations without the city, where they would be 

 exposed to the depredations of the Gracias. 



My feelings were excited on copying the preceding remarks 

 from Mr. Cruso's narrative. I had heard from other visitors of 

 the desolated scenery at Vezelpore. The villa I had erected on 



