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From Dhar, the surviving Churruns purpose repairing to the 

 peshwa at Poonah; and if unsuccessful there also, will renew the 

 self-devotion, and complete the sacrifice of despair! 



This night a robbery was committed in our encampment, the 

 first of the kind which has happened on the journey. Mr. Cruso 

 was the principal sufferer, having lost not only his palanquin bed- 

 ding and several other articles, but a case of capital surgical instru- 

 ments; he was fortunately provided with another set; otherwise 

 in such a country the loss would have been irretrievable. 



Nothing interesting occurred for some days; on the 8th of 

 April the party arrived at Boodnaour, through an open flat coun- 

 try; having entirely passed the hills and rugged unevenness which 

 had characterised the landscape during the last fortnight. The 

 next day they encamped at Noulai, a large flourishing town be- 

 longing to Mhadajee Sindia, with a mud wall and a ghurry; it is 

 the capital of a very considerable purgunna, containing an hundred 

 and seventy-five villages: the part through which they travelled was 

 well cultivated, yielding good crops of most Indian grains, wheat, 

 barley, and cotton. Near the town runs the little river Chumla; 

 which, contrary to all the streams yet passed, takes a north-easter!}' 

 direction. Sir Charles Malet imputes this to their having entirely 

 left the range of hills and high lands from whence those rivers took 

 their rise, and which now formed a barrier to the flux of water 

 south-westward. As the rivers crossed in the former part of the 

 journey generally fall into the Mihi, so those in their future pro- 

 gress must be considered as subsidiaries of the Jumna and the 

 Ganges, a prominent feature in the geography of Hindostan. 



The next halt was at Bulleyree, a village in a well-cultivated 



