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to perceive that the strength of an elephant was hot sufficient to 
force it into the stream. immediately sent back our own 
boat, with orders to bring the palanquin only ; and the people on the 
opposite side very sensibly disembarking it on the shore, they met 
at about half way. This however caused a delay of an hour and a 
half, and it was past twelve before I actually set olF with my thir- 
teen bearers, to carry me at least twenty miles. The clouds cleared 
away, and my fellows gave evident symptoms of suffering from the 
heat ; they however advanced tolerably well, at about four miles 
an hour. We occasionally passed baggage-carts of Colonel Browne's 
detachment, which were lagging behind, and gave me many fears 
for the delay of my own. We stopped at two or three tanks^ and 
about six, began to be astonished at not reaching the encampment 
of Colonel Browne. We were still told it was a little farther on ; 
my fellows were heartily tired, but there was no remedy, and full 
three miles farther we discovered the tents, where I arrived at seven, 
and found Colonel Browne at dinner. At nine no tents had ar- 
rived for me, but my bed had kept up with us. The Colonel 
offered me his little dining tent, which I accepted. My poor 
bearers, after all their fatigue, had no shelter ; about three in the 
morning some rain fell, when they all contrived to crawl about 
me. The country was more pleasing this last day, from mango- 
topes and cultivation. The villages were more numerous, but I 
saw no town till I arrived at Meeraun-ka-Serai. It has a very fine 
serai, from whence its name, and the tomb of the founder situated 
in a garden on the opposite side of the road. It is distant twenty 
miles from Manarow. 
August 1.— -Lieutenant Turton, a Staffordshire young man. 
