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DEAN MAHOMET.
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and embelliſhed with rich furniture, the top was hung with beautiful taſſels and adorned with gay trapings; and the ſides, head, and foot were decorated with valuable ſilver ornaments. In ſhort it was elegantly finiſhed, and worth, at leaſt ſix hundred rupees; for which reaſon, ſuch vehicles are ſeldom kept but by people of condition. Every palankeen is attended by tight ſervants, four of whom, alternately, carry it, much in the ſame manner as our ſedan chairs are carried in this country. But to return---the, villagers having entered theſtore-tent above mentioned, bore me ſuddenly away to a field about half a mile from the camp, on the conveyance I have juſt deſcribed to you,
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