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LETTER XLV. Page 239.

The same.

LETTER XLVI. Page 243.

Made Prisoner by some of Hyder Alli's Troops. Hu-
manity of a Lascar. Hardships. Meets a Friend.
Mr. Hail.

LETTER XLVII. Page 248.

Mr. Hall's Misery aggravated by the Loss of a Minia-

ture which hung at his Bosom. Sent under a guard

up the Country.

LETTER XLVIII. Page 252.

Arrives at Hydernagur, the Capital of the Province of
Bidanore. Brought before the Jemadar. Committed
to Prison.

LETTER XLIX. Page 258.

History of Hyat Sahib. Called upon to enter into the
Service of Hyder, and offered a Command. Peremp-
torily refuses. Another Prisoner, a Native. Court
of Justice. Tortures and Exactions. Mr. Hall de-
clining fast.

Unable to proceed.
Proceeds in an open
Sickness at Manga-

LETTER LVIII. Page 303.

Sets off for Bengal. Cundapore.
Letter from General Mathews.
Boat for Anjengo. Stopped by
lore. Tellicherry. Anjengo. Travancore. Danc

AN

OVERLAND

JOURNEY TO INDIA, &c.

My dear Frederick,

LETTER I.

THE tenderness of a fond father's heart admonishes me, that I should but poorly requite the affectionate solicitude you have so often expressed, to become acquainted with the particulars of my journey over land to India, if I any longer with-held from you an account of that singular and eventful period of my life, I confess to you, my dear boy, that often when I have endeavoured to amuse you with the leading incidents and extraordinary vicissitudes of fortune which chequered the whole of that series of adventures, and observed the eager attention with which, young though you were, you listened to the recital, the tender sensibility you disclosed at some passages, and the earnest desire you expressed that "I should the whole relate," I have felt an almost irresistable impulse to indulge you with an accurate and faithful narrative, and have more than once sat down at my bureau for the purpose: but sober and deliberate reflection suggested that it was too soon, and that, by complying with your desire at such a very early period of your life, I should but render the great end I proposed by it abortive, frustrate the instruction which I meant to convey, and impress the mere incident on your memory, while the moral deducible from it must necessarily evaporate, and leave no trace, or rather excite no idea, in a mind not sufficiently matured for the conception of abstract principles, or prepared by practice for the deduction of moral inferences.

I am aware that there are many people, who, contemplating only the number of your days, would consider my undertaking this arduous task, and offering it to B

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