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satisfaction to the Rajah, and as the latter could not get 

 answers to his demands from Calcutta in less than a month, 

 it was determined to keep him till then ; but to send 

 me to Dorjiling. He returned in the evening to tell me 

 that Campbell's men (with the exception only of the 

 Ghorkas *) had been seized, because they were runaway 

 slaves from Sikkim ; but that I need not alarm myself, 

 for mine should be untouched. 



The hut being small, and intolerably dirty, I pitched my 

 tent close by, and lived in it for seven days : I was not 

 guarded, but so closely watched, that I could not go out 

 for the most trifling purpose, except under surveillance. 

 They were evidently afraid of my escaping ; I was however 

 treated with civility, but forbidden to communicate either 

 with Campbell or with Dorjiling. 



The Soubah frequently visited me, always protesting I 

 was no prisoner, that Campbell's seizure was a very 

 trifling affair, and the violence employed all a mistake. 

 He always brought presents, and tried to sound me about 

 the government at Calcutta. On the 12th he paid his 

 last visit, looking wofully dejected, being out of favour at 

 court, and dismissed to his home : he referred me to 

 Meepo for all future communications to the Rajah, and 

 bade me a most cordial farewell, which I regretted being 

 unable to return with any show of kind feeling. Poor 

 fellow ! he had staked his last, and lost it, when he under- 

 took to seize the agent of the most powerful government 

 in the east, and to reduce him to the condition of a tool of 

 the Dewan. Despite the many obstructions he had placed 

 in my way, we had not fallen out since July ; we had been 



* These people stood in far greater fear of the Nepalese than of the English, 

 and the reason is obvious : the former allow no infraction of their rights 

 to pass unnoticed, whereas we had permitted every article of our treaty to be 

 contravened. 





