Circular of Mar Ignatius Georgius, Patriarch of Antioch, Letter from Father Abraham of Jerusalem (an Envoy sent with visitorial Powers, by the Armenian Patriarch of Ara- rat, to the Eastern Churches of that Nation in India) to Mar Athanasius; sent with Bishop Heber's Syriac Letter, by the hands of Mr. Doran, Jan. 6, 1826 The second Letter to Mar Athanasius, March 22, 1826.... 477 Letter to Mar Philoxenus, March 27, 1826 Copy of a Letter from the Rev. Thomas Robinson to Mar Ignatius Georgius, Patriarch of Antioch, 1826 Extracts from a Letter to the Reverend William Roy, Secre- NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY, &c. CHAPTER XXV. BARODA TO BOMBAY, Entrance into Baroda-Namdar Khân-Cantonment-Church-Character of the Guicwar-Consecration of the Church-Visit to the Guicwar-Visits from Natives-Guicwar returns the Visit-Departure from Baroda-Crossing the Mhye-Kholees-Swaamee Narain-Hot Winds-Interview with Swaamee Narain-Arrival at Kairah-Insalubrity of Climate-Jain Temple-Departure from Kairah-Difficulty in crossing the Mhye-Broach-Banyan-tree in an Island on the Nerbudda-Surat-Embarkation—Arrival at Bombay. MARCH 19.-From Jerrdda to Baroda is thirteen miles over a bare and open country, the roads much cut up. Expecting to meet "great men” we made our march in regular order, the nagari beating and Maharatta standard flying before us, followed by my chobdars and a chobdar of the Resident's, who gave the word for marching in a sort of shrill cry, "Chůlō Maharatta!" Forward Maharattas! The vakeels and the dewan followed with the chief part of my escort. After marching about eight miles, we were met by a body of horse in Persian dresses, under a young officer splendidly mounted on a dapple-grey Arab horse, with the most showy accoutrements which I had seen in India, and a shield of rhinoceros-hide as transparent as horn, and ornamented with four silver bosses. He announced himself as sent by the Resident to enquire after my health, and advanced in a very graceful manner to embrace me. Foreseeing that I should probably have these sort of ceremonies, I had chosen for the day my little Barreah horse, to whom my servants had given the name of Rawul, who having received his breeding at a native court, understood these ceremonies better, and endured them more patiently than either Cabul or Nedjeed would have done. After this ceremony, and a little more conversation with the dewan, the young officer, who was evidently a dandy of the first brilliancy in his own way, began to ride before me, shewing off his horse and horsemanship in all the usual manége of the East, curvetting, wheeling, galloping forwards, and stopping short. He did all this extremely well, but some of his followers in imitating him were not so skilful or so fortunate, and one of them got a pretty rude fall in crossing some of the deep ruts with which the road was intersected. This gave me a good excuse for desiring them to ride gently, a measure desireable on more accounts than one, since the dust was almost intolerable. About a mile further Mr. Williams met us, with several other gentlemen, and an escort |