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to direct us, I was ordered to accompany him with an eſcort of Seapoys to the very place he deſcribed, where I found two elephants, two camels, and twelve Arabian horſes, under the care of a few peaſants, who made off on the appearance of our ams. I ſeized the cattle as the property of an enemy, and drove them to Gochipour, where the party waited my return.
Captain Baker reſerving only one horſe for his own uſe, generouſly divided theſpoil among the ſoldiers as the well earned need of their military labours.
After a months ſtay here, we
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