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concomitants of unclean crowds ; vermin, as active in their ravages as 
the busiest followers of a camp; hosts of fleas, musquitos, and rats ! 
whose nocturnal freaks were cruelly destructive of the repose, so neces¬ 
sary to wearied travellers. For my own part, after much disturbed 
and broken sleep, mistaking the light of the moon for the dawn of day, 
1 impatiently arose, and was unspeakably disappointed on discover¬ 
ing the true time. It was scarcely one o’clock, and I was again com¬ 
pelled to associate with my pestiferous companions, till, eager to 
enjoy the fresh air, and anxious to escape their persecution, I left 
them on the earliest appearance of morning, not without visible marks 
of their fury. 
In our first walk, on Saturday the 5 th of July, we took the beaten 
path, which conducted us to the intrenched lines, formed by the loyal 
army when it invested Wandipore: these were about a mile from the 
castle, and the works remained nearly perfect. They consisted of two 
thick mud walls, intersecting the hill, and forming a wide street, with 
sufficient space to admit a double row of huts', and a vacant interval in 
the centre. A covered channel, near the surface of the ground, con¬ 
ducted water to supply the castle: of this the besiegers took advantage, 
and opening it, obtained enough for their own camp, turning the 
superfluous quantity down the sides of the hill. By these means, it 
-was supposed, that they would deprive the besieged of water, which 
was indeed nearly the case, although the castle commanded the 
conflux of the rivers and the streams on either side of it; for the point 
was almost perpendicular, and on both sides a high and steep declivity 
led down to the water. 
