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DEAN MAHOMET.
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LETTER V.


DEAR SIR,

I FELT great ſatisfaction in having procured the eſteem of my friend, and the other Officers, and acquired the military exerciſe, to which I was very attentive. We lay about eight months in Denapore, when Col. Morgan having received intelligence of the depredations committed by ſome of the Morattoes, gave orders to the army to make the neceſſary preparations for marching to Chrimnaſa, at a moment's warning. The baggage was immediately drawn out, and the

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