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Measures having been adopted during these messages to render 

 the search abortive, Mirza's request was readily complied with. 

 To conceal these men in the fort was not difficult, but to convey 

 them on board the vessels required the utmost caution. A brah- 

 min, bigoted to his religious ceremonies, will hardly forego them 

 even for the preservation of life. When the search in the gallivat 

 was ended, the wretched Narrain Row, terrified almost to stupi- 

 dity, was sent on board, disguised as a Lascar, and shut up in a 

 small dark place, separated from the hold. The brahmin had 

 not been there more than an hour, when Mirza informed captain 

 Torriano that having in vain searched for him on shore, he must 

 be permitted to place a guard on board the gallivat until she 

 sailed out of the river, to prevent the brahmin obtaining admit- 

 tance. The commandant having a point of consequence to carry 

 for the Company, with Mirza, thought it prudent to grant his re- 

 quest. The point so material, was the embarkation of the guns 

 and stores of the fort, together with the treasure belonging to the 

 Company : for, strange and reprehensible as it must appear, not 

 one of these articles, nor the destiny of the inhabitants, had been 

 mentioned, cither in the Commissioners' orders, or in the third 

 article of peace, which they sent to the commandant. Fortunately, 

 after a long altercation, which terminated in a handsome pecu- 

 niary gratification, this difficulty was surmounted, and the eigh- 

 teen-pounder guns, field-pieces, running-shot, shells, musquet- 

 ammunition, and a quantity of powder were shipped off, and a 

 receipt obtained for some powder unavoidably left behind for 

 want of a proper conveyance. 



Narrain Row, whose weak frame and debilitated system ren- 



