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have been taken was by escalades. Poorunder would have
been breached at the gateway from below. During the siege
I went one morning down the Ghaut,-close under the fort, and
enjoyed a quiet, romantic scene—birds singing, and everything
peaceful, though close to a fort besieged/
From Poorunder Mr. Elphinstone returned to Poona for
the first time since the commencement of hostilities.
if, jPoc/Mt, 16 wG^gs.—I rode in here this morning
with Colonel Hewett and a party. I had a small escort of horse,
and thought it not unlikely I might meet with some of the
Peshwa's Pindarrees. I am lodged at the palace, and am now
seated in the Peshwa's closet, where our first consultation about
the proceedings took place ; and I have been shutting the door,
the closing of which on the Sait probably first led to all subse-
quent misunderstandings. The Peshwa's great hall is now my
reception-room, and the place where we used to meet below is
the dining-room. Poona, when approached, is unchanged in
appearance; but the destruction of all our houses destroys
every feeling of quiet and home, and the absence of the Hindoo
Government occasions a void that alters the effect of every-
thing. Our respect for the place is gone, and the change is
melancholy. How must the natives feel this, when even we
feel it !
During the week which followed the last entry some half a
dozen more of these old Mahratta strongholds gave in.
After their surrender the force attacked the most important
of these strongholds in the neighbourhood of Sattara.
' Jiu/rcA. 29.—Rode through the lower part of the valley of
Sattara, which is finer than the upper. Groves of mango trees
with bright green leaves ; clumps of cocoa-nut trees, so uncom-
mon above the Ghauts, here and there fine tamarind or peepul
trees throwing their deep shade over a temple by the Kistria,
and the picturesque hills that surround the whole make this
the finest part of the Peshwa's country, if not of India. The
Peshwa has set off for Nagpoor. Generals Smith and Doveton
are after him, but at a great distance. It puzzles us a little
which way he will return when he finds that the Raja is seized.
have been taken was by escalades. Poorunder would have
been breached at the gateway from below. During the siege
I went one morning down the Ghaut,-close under the fort, and
enjoyed a quiet, romantic scene—birds singing, and everything
peaceful, though close to a fort besieged/
From Poorunder Mr. Elphinstone returned to Poona for
the first time since the commencement of hostilities.
if, jPoc/Mt, 16 wG^gs.—I rode in here this morning
with Colonel Hewett and a party. I had a small escort of horse,
and thought it not unlikely I might meet with some of the
Peshwa's Pindarrees. I am lodged at the palace, and am now
seated in the Peshwa's closet, where our first consultation about
the proceedings took place ; and I have been shutting the door,
the closing of which on the Sait probably first led to all subse-
quent misunderstandings. The Peshwa's great hall is now my
reception-room, and the place where we used to meet below is
the dining-room. Poona, when approached, is unchanged in
appearance; but the destruction of all our houses destroys
every feeling of quiet and home, and the absence of the Hindoo
Government occasions a void that alters the effect of every-
thing. Our respect for the place is gone, and the change is
melancholy. How must the natives feel this, when even we
feel it !
During the week which followed the last entry some half a
dozen more of these old Mahratta strongholds gave in.
After their surrender the force attacked the most important
of these strongholds in the neighbourhood of Sattara.
' Jiu/rcA. 29.—Rode through the lower part of the valley of
Sattara, which is finer than the upper. Groves of mango trees
with bright green leaves ; clumps of cocoa-nut trees, so uncom-
mon above the Ghauts, here and there fine tamarind or peepul
trees throwing their deep shade over a temple by the Kistria,
and the picturesque hills that surround the whole make this
the finest part of the Peshwa's country, if not of India. The
Peshwa has set off for Nagpoor. Generals Smith and Doveton
are after him, but at a great distance. It puzzles us a little
which way he will return when he finds that the Raja is seized.