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'ingh by -mefTa^e though Hark Deo requefl- 

 . ed list: >ur guard a aind treachery which he appre- 



cd a^ainft' u-*. The Gjrkdis having fent 



forae coolies, we with due precaution, our fire arms loaded, 



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paces encamp- on a -narrow plot>of grafs foi> 



mei. 



:I5t;er at:fun-rife'5i a . Noon- 82V Night 6V a 



Thu- ud) a&0£U*feftgs th^ fuhadar came,: to pay. us a vilit. He is a re- 

 lation of the depofed. Pdpi Raja. It is woithy of notice, that two~ 

 thirds of the; feroops of Bhacti Tha?a, confrii of -the- natives of the fuh- 

 jugated countries* --. 



Otlober 3d —Intermittent fevers are very common atthis feafon 3 

 and attributed by the inhabitants to the rain which fails almoft conti- 

 nually at rhsr end of Bhaion, and the great moi flare of the fod, But 

 to the humidity of the atmofphere and the ground, may be added, the 

 vegetable trafh they cat,, and the clofc and filthy ftate 0/ their houfes, 

 and efpecially the accumulation of all kinds of dirt round their habita- 

 tions^ '. 



Otlober j^th. — Went accompanied by aTew Gorkha fipdhU in purfuiS 

 of .be ars, faw and wounded feveral. 



OBober ^tho-^A 'letter had come from Bandu Thapa dating, that, 

 as he deli red much to meet us, he wifhed we would march as foon as 

 poflible, and he* would wait for us at Chandpur* 



October 6th. — No coolies came. The jamadar faid a we . fhquld cer- 

 taiiJy have them the following day . 



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