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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Vol. 2 of 2
Not long before this separation a few days were devoted to a visit to Mr.' Henry Russell, who had suc ceeded as Resident at the Peshwa's court. The party consisted of themselves and their three youngest children, with their friends, Captain and Mrs. Graham, the last of whom, in her Journal of a Residence in India, gives a lively account of the tour, and amongst other things mentions the train of servants that were required for this short journey Of ninety or a hundred miles. Our attendants, says she, are near two hundred. We are obliged to carry tents, furniture, cooking utensils, and food; so that our train cannot consist of fewer persons. Besides, we must have coolies to carry our baggage, Lascars to attend to and pitch our tents, servants to dress our food, others to take care of the horses and the beasts of burden, and hamauls for our palankeens. The party visited the caves at Carlee, which it will be remembered he left unexplored in his journey of the previous year; the city of Poonah, and the Hill of Parbutty, with its palaces; and having passed some days at the Sungum with its hospitable master, returned to Bombay, after a fortnight's absence, about the 27th or December.
The intellectual appliances of life in the East, would seem to be on the same profuse scale, from an observation of the same Lady, recorded in Sir J s journal shortly before.
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