BURH AMPORE. 
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which it acquired and secured to their country. But not only to 
England has it been fortunate : the original inhabitants, the Hin- 
doos, oppressed by the extortion, and massacred by the ambitious 
wars of their Mahometan conquerors, have equal reason to rejoice. 
For now nearly half a century, they have enjoyed a security in 
their properties and persons unknown in any other part of Asia ; 
and, what is almost as great a blessing, the horrors of war have been 
far removed from their peaceable abodes. 
The heat in the middle of the day was unpleasant, and my 
bearers suffered from it. They not only went slowly, but fell several 
times. The legs of my servant's palanquin were completely broken, 
and mine were damaged. I had however no power of chiding, and 
consequently bridled my anger, though I saw with vexation the sun 
declining without having made much way. As darkness came on, 
I gave myself up to sleep, and it was absolutely midnight before I 
arrived at Captain Parlby's house at Burhampore, although only 
thirty-six miles from the river, which I had passed at six in the 
morning. 
The British who, from official or commercial concerns, are 
attached to the great cities of India, have generally fixed on a spot 
at a little distance, where they have constructed modern residences, 
free from the stench and confinement of Asiatic narrow streets. Bur- 
hampore is one of the six great military stations in these provinces. 
The cantonments are a fine range of buildings, on one side of a large 
open lawn, around which are situated the houses of different Eu- 
ropeans. It is distant five miles from Moorshedabad, usually called 
" the City." It is the residence of the present Nawaub of Bengal, 
Naussir ool Moolk, and also of the celebrated Munny Begum, 
