our carriage, I immediately made a _salaam_ after the manner of my own
country, which she graciously acknowledged, seeing, no doubt, that I was a
native of a strange land!"

[1] This must have been one of the _vakeels_ or envoys, whose
departure from Bombay, in March 1839, is mentioned in the _Asiatic
Journal_, (xxix. 178;) the party is there said, on the authority
of the _Durpun_, (a native newspaper,) to have consisted of
eleven, Mahrattas and Purbhoos, no mention being made of Moulavi
Afzul Ali. We have been unable to trace the further proceedings of
the deputation in this country; but they probably found on their
arrival, that the fate of their master was already decided, as he
was dethroned by the Company, in favour of his cousin Appa Sahib,
in September of the same year, on the charge of having
participated in a conspiracy against the English power. The
justice, as well as policy of this measure, was, however, strongly
canvassed, and gave rise to repeated and violent debates in the
Court of Proprietors.

[2] The native servants of the Governor-General at Calcutta, on
state occasions, wear splendid scarlet and gold caftans.--_See_
Bishop Heber's Journal.

[3] The Khan nowhere exactly explains the surprise which he
expresses, here and at other times, at the shouts of
_hurra_!--perhaps his ear was wounded by the resemblance of the
sound to certain Hindustani epithets, by no means refined or
complimentary.

This fancied metamorphosis of the sturdy beef-eaters with their partisans,