. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. han themselves; and after every predatory ex-cursion, they returned home to share the spoils, when the elephants and pal-anquins were given up to the chief, but the rest of the ill-gotten treasure wasequally divided, and publicly exposed for sale at a kind of fair held forthat purpose, where the women sold the goods, while the men amused them-selves with smoking, and playing at various games. It is stated that thesefairs vvere always numerously attended, although the nature of the busines
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. han themselves; and after every predatory ex-cursion, they returned home to share the spoils, when the elephants and pal-anquins were given up to the chief, but the rest of the ill-gotten treasure wasequally divided, and publicly exposed for sale at a kind of fair held forthat purpose, where the women sold the goods, while the men amused them-selves with smoking, and playing at various games. It is stated that thesefairs vvere always numerously attended, although the nature of the businesstransacted at them was perfectly well known. At the time when the mar-quis of Hastings arrived in India, the Pindarries mustered a force of not lessthan forty thousand cavalry, so that there was no chance of putting a stop totheir depredations, but by a regular war of extermination. As they had not,however, up to that period, began to infest the British possessions to anyextent, the attention of the governor was not directed toward any immediatemeasures for their subjugation. MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. 525. A Ghoorka Chief. But there was anotlier predatory horde, called the Ghoorkas, inliabitantsof the mountainous regions of Nepaul, who were nominally subject to theemperor of China, but were governed by a prince z?/?^,^^^ y ,i of their own tribe. These people had seized on r-^-J^M/^^^^s^^^i^/}fh vsome territories belonging to the British nrnvpm- ki&!An£\l^m[0/^-im. , which they refused to give,been guilty of some violent out-rages during a negotiation withthe English ; so that a war withthem was inevitable. The princeof Nepaul applied for assistanceto the Chinese emperor, Kea-king, who gave orders that anarmy should be sent to his aid ;but when he became acquaintedwith the cause of the war, hedeclared that the Ghoorkas werein the wrong. He therefore re-fused to assist them, and re-voked his orders for sending thetroops. The English were very unsuccessful in the early part
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