Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . been able satisfactorily to answer. MEADOWS TAYLOR had the best of all opportunities for writing on the peopleand history of the Dekhan. He had indomitable perseverance, • This l(X)ks lieroic:—A Rajput who had made what he thought a prudentretreat Irom battle, when lie sat himself down in his house, was served at hismeat by his wife with a brass ladle. On asking for a reason, she replied,Lest the sight of iron should turn your stomach from your victuals, as ithad done from fi^diting.—Frjer. t Measurements of the big gun—diameter at breech,
Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . been able satisfactorily to answer. MEADOWS TAYLOR had the best of all opportunities for writing on the peopleand history of the Dekhan. He had indomitable perseverance, • This l(X)ks lieroic:—A Rajput who had made what he thought a prudentretreat Irom battle, when lie sat himself down in his house, was served at hismeat by his wife with a brass ladle. On asking for a reason, she replied,Lest the sight of iron should turn your stomach from your victuals, as ithad done from fi^diting.—Frjer. t Measurements of the big gun—diameter at breech, 4 ft. 10 in.; diameterat muzzle, 5 ft. 2 in.; diameter of bore, 2 ft. 41 in. ; lengtli, 14 ft. .T at Ahmadnagar, 1548. 136 BIJAPUR. and he who was once an apprentice in a grocers shop in Bombayin 1824 is now no mean authority on the history of the Dekhan,and Ms novels are in the hands of aU. He admits himself thathe owes much in the way of legendary lore to William is a matter of history that AVilliam Palmer was allowed to. MEADOWS TAYLOR. establish a house of business at Haidarabad in the Dekhan in1814, and came down in the Calcutta crash of 1829-32. Sir John Kaye gives the whole story in his life of IMetcalfe,and we gather from his account that the commercial relations ofthe Nizam with this house were so enormous that at one timethe Government of India found it necessary to pay off the MEADOWS TAYLOR. 137 liabilities of the firm to the extent of a million sterling, andthat bullion was sent to this amount from Calcutta. It did nogood to Palmer and Company, but rather precipitated the impression is that the existence of Palmer and Company,with their then relations to the Nizam, was a standing menaceto the British Go\-ernment, and the sooner the firm, as thenconducted, was ended the better. ileadows Taylor will now tell liis own story. In 1830 house continued to be my chief resort. There was afascination about him quite irresistib
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