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THE TRAVELS OF
the ſame race as the Nabobs of Moorſhadabad. He was appointed Subadar in a battalion of Seapoys commanded by Captain Adams, a company of which under his command was quartered at a ſmall diſrict not many miles from Patna, called Tarchpoor, an inconſiderable fort, built on the ſide of a little river that takes its riſe a few miles up the country. Here he was ſtationed in order to keep this fort.
In the year 1769, a great dearth overſpread the country about Tarchpoor, Where the Rajas' Boudmal, and his brother Corexin reſided, which they took advantage of by pretending it was impoſſible for them to remit the ſtipulated ſup-
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