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T.h£ ?econd day, after the flrideft fearch had teen made. for the bo ?\ of 

 the Bho^v advice was brought, that a body was lying, about fifteen cof$ 

 from the field of battle, which appeared to be that of a chief: Siiitjau-. 

 UL-DowLAH immediately went to the place, and had the body wafhed ■:.■ 

 fome pearls of the "value of three or four hundred rupees each, being founds 

 near the body, confirmed the belief of its being that of a perfon of rank. 

 Triefe pearls the Navab gave to Si'N-AmjR Pundit && llahrutza F--'H.,. 

 who, as well as-therefl: of the Mahrattas, whoonr :■ k find e^Ethfe fifc&e*^ 

 burn; into" tears, and declared this to be the body of the E ; ; h |*hi 7 



difcovered by feveral natural marks, which the Bhow wal ; to \v-i 



about him/ Fi'fft, a black fpot about' the iize of a nice: oti ._ .: 

 'thighs; fec'ondly, a fear' in his back, where he had been #.©ad \: I 

 Kuttar by Mazuffer Khan ; and thirdly, in his f6dt the fo tbiaate h . \ 

 ..called by the. aftrologers, Fuddum Mutch., The body was that of a 

 young man about thirty -five years old, and flrongly made; and, as it was 

 known, that the. Bhow every day made one thoufand two hundred proAra- 

 tions before the fun, io were there the marks of fuch a practice on the 

 Knees and hands of this corpfe. 



While we were thus employed, ! obferved one of the Burrames 9 \ 

 who flood at a diftance and laughed, which I remarked to the Navab, and 

 told 'him, that perhaps that man might know fomething refpe&ing the-- 

 body. The Navab took him afide and questioned him ; to which he 

 lie anfwered: " I faw this perfon feveral times during the battle; he was ex-- 

 ** tremely well mounted, and, in the courfe of the action, two of his hor- 

 44 ies were killed under him ; at lafl he received feveral wounds, and was 

 *' dismounted from his third horfe. About this time the Mahratta army 

 *' fled on all fides, yet this perfon feemed fall to preferve his, prefence of 



