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at the Lama's hand, the valuable favour of a badge of thin crimson 
silk, over which various solemn incantations had been performed, and 
which was in future to secure for ever, my prosperity and success. 
Valuable as the present was, I fear I have unfortunately lost it. In 
the evening, I took a long farewell of all the officers of his court, and 
on the following day, departed for Bengal. 
I found the Soobah of Buxadewar absent from that station, having 
taken up his residence in the valley of Chichacotta, for the winter 
season, where a temperature of weather prevailed, more mild and con¬ 
genial even to a Booteea’s constitution, than the rude region of his 
native mountains. I passed a day with him, for I could not resist his 
pressing solicitations; and on the next, I hastened to join the friends 
I had left the preceding year, when I departed from Bengal, who had 
kindly advanced, and formed a camp upon Calamatty plain, to meet 
me. We proceeded together the next day to Rungpore. I soon after 
received orders from the Governor General to advance without delay, 
and join him at Patna, in the province of Bahar. I had the satisfaction 
there to meet him, and to be honoured with his entire approbation of 
my conduct in the execution of the commission, which he had been 
pleased to confide to my charge. My official report of the success of 
my mission, will be found in the following pages. 
