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and has never been finished. The garden is fine, and is ornamented 
with several noble mango trees, and a great number of cocoa-nut 
trees, which I had seen no where else above the Gauts, and which 
several people told me would not grow there. The guddy was 
placed in a verandah, opening to a bason of water, with fountains, 
and covered by a trellis of vines. We had the pleasure to announce 
to his Highness the surrender of Chandore to the united army of 
the British and the Paishwa, under Colonel Wallace, who was 
rapidly conquering the hill forts of Holcar, that extend towards 
Guzerat, in hopes of preventing his making an incursion into that 
fertile province, or into the territories of the Paishwa, to maintain 
his predatory bands. His Highness was in great spirits, and ob- 
served, that his father, always wished for the friendship of the 
English, but that it remained for him first to reap the blessings of 
it. He had said in a former conversation, that he would mention 
another circumstance on a future occasion ; it turned out to be a 
request, that I would procure him an Arab mare. The Colonel of 
course assured him that I would try my best ; but unfortunately I 
knew it was impossible, as the Arabs never will part with their 
mares. The ceremony of my entrance was the same as the former, 
and I was seated in a similar situation. 
We soon had notice to move up stairs : the Paishwa passing 
through abwack door, while we mounted, by a narrow stair case, to a 
platform with two verandahs, one at each end. In the farther a 
white cloth was spread, on which were plantain leaves equal in 
number to the English gentlemen present. On each was a Brahmin's 
dinner, consisting of rice, plain and sweet, pastry thin as paper, 
and roiled up, pastrycakes, bread, and pease pudding. Along one 
