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THE TRAVELS OF
ſtandards of the different regiments were flying: it confified of a number of finall tents called beltons, where they kept their fire arms: the central ones belonged to the Europeans; near them, were thoſe of the Artillery; and on each wing, the Seapoys. The ſeveral corps were encamped behind their refſeſtive beltons, cloſe to which, were firſt the tents of the privates; about: twenty feet from their ſituation, were the larger and more commodious ones of the Enſign and Lieutenants; next to them the Captains' Marquees; a, little farther back, the Major's; at ſome diſtance behind the two battalions, and in a middle direction. between them was the Colonel's, which lay diametrically
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