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apartments, with Venetian blinds on each side to keep them cooL 
Unfortunately for us, so many were engaged at this time, that we 
could not procure any that were very good. Three small ones 
tolerably clean were hired for Mr. Paul, Mr. Salt, and myself: we 
had others for our servants and baggage. A person met me from 
the Vizier, to whose custody I deUvered up the tents and elephants. 
September 5. —-I discharged all my servants that were hired at 
Lucknow, except two hircarrahs, as they would be useless during 
the voyage, and I should be obliged to give them two months wages 
to take them back, if I discharged them at Calcutta. His Hic^h- 
ness the Nawaub Vizier sent me by Mr. Paul two very magnificent 
Persian dresses, such as he wears himself, with a sword and shield. 
He also sent me four female dresses belonging, as he said, to his 
own wife, These were more elegant, and more richly ornamented 
with gold and silver, than anything I had seen, and gave me a high 
idea of the elegance of the interior of a Mussulmaun's harem. The 
present was singular, and in some respects contrary to their custom, 
as they rarely mention the females of their family. 
September 6. — At ten o'clock we embarked in the pinnace which 
was hired by Mr. Paul : it was rowed by twelve dandys, and being 
the largest, was our sitting room. The river is most uncommonly low 
for the season ; the sand banks are therefore visible, and leave the 
channel in some places hardly sufficient in width for the passage of 
the boat. The current is extremely rapid, and drives the boat very 
often broadside foremost. The water-fowl are in great numbers on 
the edges of the shoals, and form an excellent mark by which to guide 
the boats. The breeze is still from the westward, and drives us on 
at a very good rate. The bungelows, as we proceeded, extended for 
