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THE TRAVELS OF
returned on the palankeen to the camp.
We lay in Bankeepore about ſix months, when we received orders from Col. Leſie to march to Denapore, Where we arrived in the year of 1770, and found the remaining Companies of the Europeans and Seapoys, that were quartered there for ſome time before. Our camp here, confined of eight regiments; two of Europeans, and ſix of Seapoys. Denaspore is eight miles from Bankeepore, and has nothing to recommend it but a ſmall mud fort, you which ſome cannon are planted, fronting the water; Inſide the fort is a very fine barrack, perhaps the firſt in India; and when it was rea-
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