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the embassy, with its reduced equipment, left Agra on the 21st 

 of July, to cross the Doaub, the Mesopotamia of India, for 

 Caunpore, the nearest military station belonging to the East 

 India Company under the Bengal government. From Surat to 

 Agra, Sir Charles and his party had travelled entirely on horse- 

 back ; from hence to Caunpore they intended proceeding in 

 palanquins. 



