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3 Saaod him amded on a' phtn ocmch, in a neat, but nM » large tent,
4 qpiread widi cafpets and fdts.' We stood opposite to him, till he de*>
5 lired ua to be seeted. Hia dsesi waa plain ; a white mantle, faoed
6 vith FBnian brocade, and a bhnk shawl tmban; but his afipearanoa
7 waa yety kingly. He looked about forty when we mw him. He had
8 a fine fboe and person. His voice, and maimer, strongly resemUed
9 Shauh Shujaua $ but he was taller, and had a longer, more regular
10 laoe, and a finer beaid. He had b^ no means the appearance of a
11 blind man : his eyes, thou^ phdidj injured, retained black enoo^
12 to give-nvaci^ to his countenance; and, he always tinned ihem to
13 wadk the petaon with whom he was cokirening. He had, however,
14 some appearance of d^ectioa and melaachofy. Afixr we were soeted,
15 a hmg sQence ensued, which Shauh Zemaun broke, bj -ifjeaildng cf
16 his bvothei^s misfortmic^ and saying they had prevented his showing
17 lis the atientlim he otherwise woold. He then spoke of the state of
18 affiun, and expressed his hopes of a duu^e. He said, such reversti
19 were the cMumoh portion of Kings ; and mentioned the hi^rical ao*
20 counts of astonishing revolutioDS in the fortones cf various princes,
21 particularly in thai of Tamerlane. Had he gone over all the history
22 of Asia, he could scarcely have discovered a moce remarkable instance
23 of the mutability of fortune than he himself presented ; blind, de«
24 throned, and exiled, in a conntry, which he had twice subdued.
25 We marched from Kawil Pindee on the i2th of July* and reached
26 the Hvdaspes in ten marches. The first six, were like those already
27 meiilioned, unniltiyatCKl country, niuf }i c ut with dee|> ravines and
28 torrent-coui s( s, and (like the whole country between the Hvdaspes
29 and Indus,) pastured on by droA e*j of horses of a very good breed.
30 The part most to the east was l^etter cultivated than the rest. In the
31 first oi tiiese marches, we crossed tlie 8vvun, a large rivulet, which,
32 though only up to our horses girths, Mas so rapid as scarcely to be
33 fbrdable. Several of our camels w^e swept down by the stream.
34 The la,st four marches were among hills, interj^eraed with country
35 like tliat already described. The high hills on 'the north were ge-
36 nerally concealed by fogs, but sometimes we saw them rifling to a
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