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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
balaporam, at the request of Chinnapah, left there about five hundred of his troops 
to strengthen the garrison, and departed for his own country with the rest of his 
troops. The Polygar chief also returned to Nanderauz, the place of his general 
residence. 
Haider Aly, instructed in every thing that related to those people^ returned by long 
marches to satisfy his desire of vengeance against the Mahrattas, and renewed the 
siege of Chinnabalaporam, which he took in ten days. The Polygar troops being 
returned into their own country, and the Mahratta chief being at too great a distance 
to afford any relief to the garrison ,* he mutilated a great number of them in order 
to terrify the rest, and facilitate his future enterprizes. 
Having given the command of the place to one of his relations, he engaged in 
the pursuit of the Mahrattas, and, by forced marches, overtook them at Podgaconda; 
when, by a fierce and instant attack, he defeated their army, killed a considerable 
number of them, and made many of the principal officers prisoners. Morarou, after 
his defeat, retired to Gutty, his capital. Haider Aly, satisfied with having forced 
his enemy to a retreat, took possession of such part of his country as it was con¬ 
venient for him to annex to his new acquisition of Sirpi, and were equal to the 
annual produce of three lacks of pagodas. 
He had no sooner executed the project he had formed, to recover the ancient 
district of Sirpi, than he began his march against the Polygar chief of Chittercol 
Durgam, whom he soon reduced to submission, and not only compelled him to pay 
three lacks of rupees, but to furnish fifteen hundred cavalry and ten thousand 
infantry, to assist him in another enterprize which he had in view. 
In order to render what follows more intelligible, it is necessary to revert for a 
moment to a former period. 
The Rajah of Bednor, a fertile country, surrounded with lofty mountains and 
extensive forests, which render all access to it extremely difficult, had named his 
son, Chinavar Appiah, to be his successor; and, in consequence of this nomination, 
this child, who was no more than nine years of age, had been acknowledged as 
sovereign at the death of his father; so that every thing which regarded the govern¬ 
ment of the country was transacted in his name. 
A year had passed away, and things remained in this situation, when the Queen 
meditated a design on the life of the young Prince, in order to place her brother 
on the throne. A friend of the young Rajah contrived to remove him to a 
