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wis a grofs roguery, as, we had weighed the rupees; .and found that 

 one of them was. equal to 4-f,. Lcntaki TimJifiias^ and' had afcertained the 

 goodnefs of the filver. He had too. of his own accord o$ered to allow 

 that. rate. I told him, that we had placed the I u 11 ejt< confidence in h is 

 honour, and had .confide red the. bargain of the day before as binding 

 .on both parties : however we w.ere m his- power?, and we,; wilhed him 

 to receive -the twenty-five rupees, which would have anfen out of the 

 traniaclion, as it at .fir it flood, in the light.of a ■ naza.\ I declined giv- 

 ing five Sirinagar Timijhas, in lieu- of a- rupee,, as I hid been .informed, 

 that the Debcv alone refufed them* and •■■probably througUthe- influence 

 of the Latdkl merchants. During the arguments on this- fubject, the 

 young WcLzir fpoke to the Deba fevexai -times in an- under voice, hel 1 

 down his head, feerned c >nfufed, aba-fhed and afham d of ths trick.- 

 played by the D'eba. The latter ©bvioufly pleafed with having carri- 

 ed his o nit, faidV, that heretofore no ftuwl wool had ever been fold 

 except to L'ltakl merchants;- that there was an order of government 

 infLctinff the lofs of his head-on any man that fhould fell this -wool t.p 

 any -other perform; but that in confequence of our having come from a 

 o-j-eat diftance, being, as 'he was fully aware, perfons of confidera- 

 tion, and as he was pleafed with our conduct" he had departed from 

 the <rener<il rule and had put us on the fame footing with the Ldtukis : 

 that we fhould in future be placed on the fame terms as they ; and he 

 would engage that no third perfon fhould enter into competition with 

 the two parties for this article. I expreffed my fatisfaclion with his 

 promifes; and begged that he would give me a lift of the things he 

 might be likely to. want from Hindujlan, as the Europeans fent many 

 articles of great utility and beauty to that country. He faid, that a 

 fword, and large pearls of a rofe co'our, pear fhape, and free from 

 flaws or irregularities, would be molt acceptable. He gave me a draw- 

 ing of one, which probably would be worth 2^000 rupees, and which 



