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cbio on the upper lip; both the Wazir's fon and the De'ba, wore 

 Broad rings on the right thumb. Their ofterifible ufc' was for de- 

 fending the' thumb in drawing the firing of the bow: but it 

 ferved very convenient alio for trimming their tobacco pipes^ 

 which lay in readinefs beiide them* — Thefe were about eighteen inches 

 long, in the form of the Englijh pipe, but made of . iron, decora* 

 ted with emboffed work and a rim of gold, and a circle of the fame 

 metal at the union .of the bowl with, die tie rnv A' fmali japanned 

 table was before each, andon them were knplements far writing with 

 two round wooden boxes japanned^ and a- large red and white china 

 tea cup. — The Lama, had before him alfo a- japanned long and low 

 Hand upon which was a round box. — When- we entered the room, the 

 Diba was correcting a. letter, which.- he .had written to the commander 

 of Gortope, and which, he read over, . defiling- Amer Singh to explain 

 the fubftance of it to us. — He read with a diflincl -articulation, with oc- 

 casional paufes. The language was foft %\ and the fubftance, as far as we 

 could colleclit, was ss follows,'— That Amer. Sing and other Seydnas 

 bad brought along with- them two Mahants, and twenty -.five followers, 

 who were defirous of: proceeding on a- pilgrimage to Mdnfardvar; 

 that the firtt reprefentation-of: their :being Gar khalU~. 01. Firingis, was a 

 miflake : and that the arms which they- had with them, were only fuf- 

 ficient for their protection during Jb longand hazardous a journey as 

 that which they had undertaken. — That the Seydnas, had ^entered 

 into an engagement that thefe were real Gofai?is t who brought mer- 

 chandize to defray their way expences, and that they would be refponfible. 

 both in their perions and property; that they mould, demean them- 

 ielves peaceably and properly whilft they mould remainin the coun* 

 t r y f paying for every thing they might require, and. taking nothingbyi 

 force; and as they hid been put to much unneceffary expence by 

 their, being delayed at KitU the Dlbu trufted, that the chief would give 



