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^ to the Court of Candy, 
sketching off a likeness in a few minutes of one of their 
chiefs, and presenting it to him. Our watches did not escape 
their notice, and they were very curious to liave the uses ex- 
plained to them of those extraordinaiy machines. Upon being 
offered some little presents, they seemed afraid on account of 
each other to accept of any thing, lest it should come to the 
king’s knowledge. They informed us that we should find it 
impossible to bring up our horses and waggons to Candy, 
which was afterwards found to be really the case. I shall 
not forget the significant smile which one of them gave on 
seeing a tumbril pass by: it seemed emphatically to say, 
“ you may as well leave it where it is.” The Adigar, on re- 
tu rning from this conference with the general, sent some of 
his people to fetch the presents which the governor had des- 
tined for his Candian Majesty. They were very valuable, and 
consisted, among other things, of an elegant state-coach drawn 
by six horses ; a betel dish with ornaments of solid gold, which 
had belonged to the late Tippo Sultan, and was valued at eight 
hundred star-pagodas. ITere were besides presents of rose- 
water and a variety of fine muslins. After these had been de- 
livered, and we had been joined by two hundred Candians, 
sent by the Adigar to supply the place of those Cinglese who* 
had deserted us through dread of the climate, at one o’clock 
we set forward, and marched about three miles further to 
Apoiipitti, a small plain surrounded with very high hills. We 
had scarcely pitched our tents when torrents of rain be- 
gan to descend, accompanied by the loudest and most aw- 
ful peals of thunder that imagination can conceive, while 
the vivid flashes of lightning succeeded each other so rapidly 
that the firmament seemed to flame in every direction. This 
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