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non, being attended by the great Hunting-mafter, fome Omrabs riding alfo on Ele
phants, by abundance of'on Horfe-back, aiid by a numerous Hundp<>'
guard on foot, arm’d with Half-pikes, approacheth to the Nets from without S
With a great Mufquet (hoots at the Lion j who when he finds himfelf wounded comes
diredly to the Elephant, as his cuftom is i but he meets with thofe big Nets tfoppine
him, and the King (hoots fo' often at him, that at laif he kills him. Yet in this laii
hunting there was a Lion that leapt over thefe Nets, fell upon an Horfeman whofe
Horfe he kill’d, and then ran away : But the Hunters met with him, and inclofed him
again in the Net, which caufed a great difturbance to the Army j we were three or
four dayes padling in fmall torrents running down the mountains, Betwixt under
wood and fuch long grafs as that Camels hardly can be feen thereiri i and happy were
thefe that had fome provifion of vi&ualsi for all was in diforder : the Bazars c<k\d
not range themfelves, and the Villages Were remote. The reafon why we were to
fiop there fo long, was, that as it is a good fl/wea with the Indians when the King Kiffe
a Lion, fo it is a very ill one, when he faileth, and they think that the Shte would run
great hazard if they ihould not mafter him. Hence ’tis alfo that they tnake manv
Ceremonies upon the account of this Hunting i for they bring the dead Lion before
the King m the general Alembly of the Omrabs, and after he hath been well viewed
and exactly meafur’d, ’its recorded in the Archives, that fuch a King, at fuch a time
flew a Lion of fuch a bignefs, of fuch hair, of fo long and large teeth and claws not
omitting the lead circumftances, ’
1 (hall here only add a word in reference to what is commonly faid of the Opium, that
the Afs is made to fwallow, viz . That one of the chief Hunters affur’d me, that it was
but a tale of the vulgar, and that the Lion flept fufficiently without it, whenhehad
his belly full.
Now to return to our march i when the great Rivers, which in thefe quarters com
monly have no Bridges, are to be patted, there are made two Boat-Bridges, about two
oi tnree hundred paces diftant from one another i which they know well enough how to
chain and fafren together. Upon them they calf earth and draw mingled'together
which preventeth the Hiding of the animals. The fird patting upon, and the coming’
rom it are only dangerous, becaufe,^ that befides the great croud, which thencommon-
y throngeth , and the great confufion and embarafment, it often happens that pits or
limes are made when ’tis moving earth i and then you (hall have Horfes and burthen’d
Oxen turn ole upon one another, over whom people do pafs with an incredible diford
er ; which would be yet greater, if all were to pafs in weday : But ordinarily the King
encampeth out half a League (rom the Bridge, where he days a day or two, and he ne
ver almod encampeth farther than half a League from the River on the other fide of the
ridge, that (o me Army may have at lead three days and three nights to pafs more
conveniently, ° r
Ladly, as to the number of people that is found in the Army, it is not fo eafie a thing
to determine it. It- is fo differently fpoken of, that one knows not what to judge of
if. What I can tell you of it in the general, that is mod probable, is this: Thatin
tms march there were at lead, as to Souldiers and 'others, an hundred thoufand Horfe-
mcn, and above an hundred and fifty thoufand Animals, asHorfes, Mules or Elephants i
hat there were near fifty thoufand Camels, and almod as many Oxen or Attes, that
lerve to carry the gram, and other provifions of thefe poor people of the Bazars, their
wives and children : for they lugg all with them, as our Bohemians do. Upon this
meaiure you may reckon pretty near the number of theferving people, fuppofing that
nothing 15 there done but by the force of fervants, and that I, who am but iqjheraukof
a ava icr or two Horfes, can hardly do my bufinefs with lefs than three men : Some
lay, that in the whole Army, there is fcarce lefs than between three or four hundred
ou an per ons. Others reckon more i others lefs. No body ever told them to de-
ermine t ic precife number. I can fay nothing of certainty, but only that ’tis a pro-
cilgious and almort incredible number; but then you are to imagine, that ’tis all
tnc-capital City, that marcheth, becaufe that all the Inhabitans of that Town, living
? ° Urt 3 , t ^ e Arm W ar e obliged to follow them, efpecially when the voyage
IS to be long, as this ; or elfe they muft (iarve.
i he difficulty is to know, whence and how fo great an Army can fubfiftin the Field,
O van a number of people and beads. For that, we mull only fuppofe (Which is vc-
• > truej that the Indians hve very foberly, andobferve a wery (imple diet, and that of all
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