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JOUUNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
braggart. Yet he was a man of no common 
merit; but, on the contrary, imbued with many 
of the qualities necessary not only to his own 
personal aggrandisement, but really useful in pro¬ 
moting the progress of social order and civiliza¬ 
tion among his countrymen. Captain Baker gives 
the following character of him “ Being thus 
successful in the wars, he began now to take a 
princelike state on him, and to receive the com¬ 
pliments and courtesies usually paid to sovereigns 
in this country: which before he absolutely re¬ 
fused, saying God would send the people a prince; 
he, for his part, was only as an introduction to a 
revolution. Thus is the rise of the present King 
of the Buraghmahs, (for he is now generally al¬ 
lowed as such, all officers taking their oaths of 
allegiance to him ; and none now durst put him in 
mind of his having said God would appoint an¬ 
other king.) He is about forty-five years of age; 
about five feet eleven inches high ; of a hale con¬ 
stitution, and sturdy though clean make, and of a 
complexion full as dark as the generality of Bu¬ 
raghmahs : his visage somewhat long, though not 
thin, nor prominent; and coarse features, a little 
pitted with the small-pox : his aspect somewhat 
grave when serious; and, when seated in his 
throne, I thought he supported majesty with a 
tolerable grace: his temper, if I have made right 
inferences from my conversations with the people 
