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HYDRABAD AND BIDUR.
181
" Little reflecting that, morally speaking, the
band of heroes, of whom the example was recited,
might have been considered, individually, equal to
an host, acting under the direction of divine Provi-
dence, towards the attainment of a particular object
—the punishment of human depravity—these mis-
guided men, with their senses steeped in wine, did
not hesitate to place themselves on a footing of
equality with warriors so renowned; not without
arrogating to themselves a decided advantage in
point of numbers, since, upon counting those present,
they found that they amounted to no less than four
hundred persons, in the pride of health and man-
hood. That very moment they accordingly quitted
the imperial encampment in a body, for the pur-
pose, as they conceived, of carrying their besotted
plan of universal conquest into immediate execu-
tion, without taking into consideration the perils
to which, at every step, they must inevitably be
exposed.
" The day following, when it was observed that
none of them were in attendance at their posts, and
no information could be obtained as to the cause of
their absence, a suspicion arose that they were not
employed upon any very loyal or justifiable design.
A division of a thousand cavalry was, therefore,
immediately dispatched to look after them ; and not
very long afterwards, the whole of these infatuated
visionaries were brouo-ht, bound hand and foot, to
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181
" Little reflecting that, morally speaking, the
band of heroes, of whom the example was recited,
might have been considered, individually, equal to
an host, acting under the direction of divine Provi-
dence, towards the attainment of a particular object
—the punishment of human depravity—these mis-
guided men, with their senses steeped in wine, did
not hesitate to place themselves on a footing of
equality with warriors so renowned; not without
arrogating to themselves a decided advantage in
point of numbers, since, upon counting those present,
they found that they amounted to no less than four
hundred persons, in the pride of health and man-
hood. That very moment they accordingly quitted
the imperial encampment in a body, for the pur-
pose, as they conceived, of carrying their besotted
plan of universal conquest into immediate execu-
tion, without taking into consideration the perils
to which, at every step, they must inevitably be
exposed.
" The day following, when it was observed that
none of them were in attendance at their posts, and
no information could be obtained as to the cause of
their absence, a suspicion arose that they were not
employed upon any very loyal or justifiable design.
A division of a thousand cavalry was, therefore,
immediately dispatched to look after them ; and not
very long afterwards, the whole of these infatuated
visionaries were brouo-ht, bound hand and foot, to
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