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fuses. In such terror are they held, that when a party of them 

 enters a village, their horses and themselves are amply provided 

 with every thing necessary. 



The day following we crossed the dry bed of the river Dahdcr, 

 and encamped at the village of Etola, belonging to Futty Siting, 

 not far from its banks. It is remarkable that Etola, in the Brodera 

 purgunna, is the first village, since the commencement of our jour- 

 ney, at which we have been refused the few articles of provisions 

 and necessaries usually supplied to an oriental traveller. 



The next morning we left Etola at four o'clock, by torch-light, 

 and when the day broke found ourselves on a beautiful plain, ex- 

 tending many miles around us ; the trees with which it was richly 

 adorned, were arranged in such sweet assemblage as to produce the 

 most agreeable effect. I must own I had hitherto looked in vain 

 for the rural scenery which 1 had been led to expect in Guzerat : I 

 now no longer found it a fictitious exaggeration. I cannot fio-ure 

 to myself a more charming country than that in the vicinity of 

 Brodera. As you approach the city the views are enriched by a 

 number of mausoleums, embosomed among dark groves of mango 

 trees. After a march of eleven miles we encamped, at seven 

 o'clock, two hundred yards north-east of Brodera, the capital of 

 theGuicwar territory in Guzerat, and the residence of its chieftain, 

 Fulty Sihng Row Guicwar, which, by our route, is about ninety 

 miles from Surat. In the evening Futty Sihng signified his inten- 

 tion of visiting Sir Charles Malet on the following afternoon, and 

 sent a present of fruit and necessaries. 



The next day, about five o'clock in the afternoon, the approach 

 of the Brodera chieftain being announced, preparation was made 



