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200 JOURNAL .OF A RESIDENCE
they had received, and to that end they should
depute to me, as next morning two, members of
the looto to communicate his majesty's wishes.
The enga's whoon excused himself, by saying,
the business rested chiefly with the packaam
whoonghee ; that if his inclinations had been con-
sulted, every thing would have been settled to
my satisfaction long since ; and desired I might
be assured that, in a few days, I should have an
audience with the Enga Tckaing.
May 2. About seven a.m., the chief shercdoghee
of the looto, and a shercdoghee of the palace,
attended by the jemutdar, or collector of Arrakan,
the mayhoon of Arrakan's messenger lately ar-
rived from Calcutta, with several subordinate
officers of the looto, and a large rabble of inferior
attendants, came to my house : it being my usual
breakfast hour, the breakfast-table was laid out,
but I postponed breakfasting until they had
finished their visit, as I was determined to shew
them only a distant civility; accordingly, I had
chairs placed for the two sheredoghces on the lower
end of the sytringe, at a distance from the table,
fronting my usual seat at the head of the table;
the Arrakan collector and messenger were
seated on the sytringe, to the right, the other
subordinate officers to their left, and the rabble
in their rear. The shercdoghees, #c, were drcscd
in the common garb of the country without any
they had received, and to that end they should
depute to me, as next morning two, members of
the looto to communicate his majesty's wishes.
The enga's whoon excused himself, by saying,
the business rested chiefly with the packaam
whoonghee ; that if his inclinations had been con-
sulted, every thing would have been settled to
my satisfaction long since ; and desired I might
be assured that, in a few days, I should have an
audience with the Enga Tckaing.
May 2. About seven a.m., the chief shercdoghee
of the looto, and a shercdoghee of the palace,
attended by the jemutdar, or collector of Arrakan,
the mayhoon of Arrakan's messenger lately ar-
rived from Calcutta, with several subordinate
officers of the looto, and a large rabble of inferior
attendants, came to my house : it being my usual
breakfast hour, the breakfast-table was laid out,
but I postponed breakfasting until they had
finished their visit, as I was determined to shew
them only a distant civility; accordingly, I had
chairs placed for the two sheredoghces on the lower
end of the sytringe, at a distance from the table,
fronting my usual seat at the head of the table;
the Arrakan collector and messenger were
seated on the sytringe, to the right, the other
subordinate officers to their left, and the rabble
in their rear. The shercdoghees, #c, were drcscd
in the common garb of the country without any