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Sah, flating that his fon was on the road to meet us, that our ill treat- 

 ment did not proceed from him, and that the authors of it mould be 

 feverely puuifhed. 



■"mber 3d. — Thermometer 41 . Night Gg\ March at 10, ween- 

 i under a Pipal tree a little below Maflu, on the left bank of the 

 Ramyanga, The top of Ghenfdli ka Ling, covered with fnow, was 

 very vifible in a Northern direction. Our fuppofed march to-day 

 about feven miles. There was here an immenfe quantity of fifh. The 

 people place loofe bundles of rice draw in the river, and keep them 

 down with large Hones. The fifh coming into them to depoftt their 

 fpawn, are feized by the hand before they can get from within the 

 ft raw. In front up the hills are three ovens for extracting tar ; but the 

 pines are fmall, and of courfe do not contain much turpentine, 



November 4th. — Thermometer 50 . Night fj2°. The fon of Bam 

 Sah was announced jufias we had finifhed dinner: when he came, 

 preceded by an old man repeating his titles, &c, and five or fix bazar 

 gfrlso His name is Lachbir Sah, about twenty-fix or twenty-eight years 

 of age. He was drefled in fine Dacca muQin, and had about twenty 

 fhabby orderlies in attendance. He expreffed the concern his father 

 was under, at learning how we had been treated $ and was anxious to 

 have, us believe, that the Sipdhjs had a6led not only without his father's 

 orders, but even without any orders at all. He appeared defirous, we 

 fhould fay we forgave what had happened, and the perfons who had 

 committed the outrage fhould be punifhed ; we requeued that the Pun- 

 dits might be releafed, and Hated that we were unwilling that fervants 

 fhould be punifhed, for having a£ted agreeably to their orders. Lach- 

 bir Sah faid, that he would make a fevere example of the foldiers, who 

 had been moil aclive in feizing us, if we would point them out. It 



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