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LETTER TO COLBERT
the Mogol marched from Aleck on the Indus to Kaboul; tor
the purpose of besieging Kandahar.^ By stopping the
supply of water from the mountains, and preventing its
descent into the fields contiguous to the public road, they
completely arrested the army on its march, until the
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' 'E would dot an' carry one.
Till the longest day was done,
An' 'e didn't seem to know the use o' fear.'
mountaineers received from the Mogol the presents which
they had solicited in the way of alms.
The Patans also are an intractable race. They are
Mahometans, who formerly inhabited a country in the
vicinity of the Ganges, toward Bengale. Before the iu-
1 In 1651-52.
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