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the name Clhaantchieu, and shapes its course between the frontier 
mountains, flowing finally along the flat surface of the district of Bijnee 
into the Berhampooter. A bridge over the Matchieu-Patchieu, con¬ 
ducted us to the hill, on which the fortress of Wandipore stands. I 
must return to this remarkable structure, to give a particular de¬ 
scription of it. 
After we had ascended the hill, extremely wearied with eleven hours 
of toilsome travel, we were conducted to a house near the castle, which 
we had scarcely entered, when a large pot of tea, accompanied with 
roasted rice, and many polite inquiries, were brought us from the 
Daeb. Plenty of poultry, eggs, and vegetables, soon followed; but 
being destitute of cooking utensils, and without the chance of seeing 
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this night, any of those things which we had dispatched from Tassi- 
sudon in the morning, our prospect was extremely dismal, and the 
profusion rather added to our embarassment, than alleviated our 
distress. At length, reduced by hunger to the last extremity, we con¬ 
trived, by the diligence and dexterity of our friends, the Booteeas, to 
render two fowls subservient to our appetites, and produced a meal, 
that would have diverted any spectator, whilst the relish with which 
we enjoyed it, might have excited the envy of an epicure. 
Having so successfully surmounted one material difficulty, it had 
been well, if night had not exposed us to other and more serious evils. 
We were lodged in a spacious house, of a painted, flattering exterior ; 
but its interior, ill agreed with its outward promise. A short time 
before s it had been successively occupied by the rabble of the rebel 
party, and by the loyal forces, who had left behind them, all the evil 
