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uncut rubies. He also presented me in trays, which were as usual 
laid at my feet, two beautiful chowries, two punkahs, and two walk- 
ing sticks of sandal wood, with two bottles of the oil, which he re- 
quested me to accept as being the produce of his country. Im- 
mediately a salute was fired from the walls of the fort, and the 
strings of sambac were put round our necks. 
His mother sent her compliments, with inquiries after my health, 
and expressions of satisfaction at my having honoured her son with a 
visit. Immediately afterwards pawn and attar were distributed, and 
we took our leave. His Highness would have found it difficult to 
have risen, or rather descended, from his musnud to take his leave, 
as it was full four feet from the ground, and I should suppose he 
was not taller himself I therefore shook hands with him where 
he was, and expressed, what I really felt, the strongest wishes for 
his health and prosperity. 
Hitherto the acts of the Dewan Purneah have been such as to 
justify a reasonable expectation, that the young Rajah will, on 
his coming of age, find his country in a very flourishing state. 
As was naturally to be expected, the whole system of Tippoo has 
been done away, and every thing is restored to the same situation 
that it was in, prior to the usurpation of his father, except in one 
instance. 
Mysore was formerly tributary to the Anagoondy Princes, some- 
times called the Narsinga Rajahs. After the Patau dynasty was divi- 
ded into the five independent states of Viziapore, Ahmednuggar, 
Berar, Beder, and Golconda, they united in a war against the Ana- 
goondy Prince, and succeeded in destroying his power, by which 
means all the inferior Zemindars were liberated from his control, and 
