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POORAH. 
I gave them two gold mohurs, about which they wrangled abundant- 
ly. At his particular request, I appointed the Faquir Kurimmuddien 
my Vakeel at the court of the holy saint Huzrut Syed Buddiudien 
Kotbal Muddar ; and at the same time received from him an account 
of his master, a translation of which is given in the Appendix. At 
these fairs are assembled all the rascals in India ; we therefore ex- 
pected some attempt might be made to rob us, but the night passed 
off quietly. 
September At four we left Mukhunpore for Poorah, distant 
seven coss, or fourteen miles, and did not get there till past eight. 
Our elephants were completely tired ; and the sun rising perfectly 
clear, the heat was very oppressive. We found our tents most 
pleasantly situated in a mango tope on the side of the road, per- 
fectly open to the west, whence the wind blew fresh ; but, alas ! 
towards the middle of the day it occasionally was as hot as before 
the rains. The country we passed through is, as usual, a sand, but 
highly cultivated, with mango topes in great abundance : I saw no 
jungle the whole day. The crops were in a wretched state, except 
where the poor cultivators had, with much labour, watered their 
fields from the wells that are almost constantly at one side of them. 
The roads were very bad after we got into the Etawah district, 
where the one per cent, has been taken off, and the old corvee 
established again. The crowd we met going to the fair astonished 
me : for the first ten miles it was as great as in London streets ; and 
afterwards, some party or other was always in sight. The scene 
amused me much ; Hindoos and Mussulmauns equally hastening to 
the religious festivity. The females with their infants in hackerys, 
when they could afford the expense: the males on horseback ; the 
