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DEAN MAHOMET.
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about this place, informed the Rana, that they aſcended the fort in the night, and found the Chokeedars aſleep; and offered, if encouraged by a ſufficient pecuniary recompenſe, to lead his troops to the very ſpot from whence they climbed up, promiſing alſo their aſiſtance, by fixing ladders to help them to mount; but the Rana, through want of confidence in his troops, declined the enterpriſe.
Captain Popham, one of the Engliſh Officers, having procured ſome intelligence of the propoſal made to the Rana, requeſted of him, to ſend thoſe men to him: they accordingly came, through the hope of reward, and went to the appointed place,
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