Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

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dier was seated : his horse plunged, kicked,
threw his rider on the ground with a violence
that left him senseless, his open sabre falling on
the handle, which, like a miracle, was forced
into the earth leaving the point upwards in a
slanting position, just clearing his neck by a few
inches.

" The tiger turned on the man with fury and
wide-extended jaw, but was met by the sabre
point, and the Pattaan's red turban, which fell
at the instant; the tiger endeavouring to extri-
cate himself from the entanglement, the sabre
entered deeper through his jaw, from which
he had but just released himself, when a ball
from the Nuwaub's rifle entered his side and he
slank into the grass, where he was followed and
soon dispatched."

In his travels Meer Hadjee Shah had often
been exposed to the dangerous consequences
of the plague; but (as he declares), he was
always preserved from the contagion through
the same protecting care of Divine Providence
which had followed him throughout his life.
He has been often in the very cities where it