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It had been finally left to [[deletion]] him [[/deletion]] [[addition]] this letter [[/addition]] to find ^ [[addition]] out [[/addition]] his best way [[addition]] , [[/addition]] and rather than take the safest [[deletion]] route [[/deletion]] though longer route by Hyderabad and Goa [[addition]] , [[/addition]] Colonel FitzClarence determined to pass through the Peishwah's dominions; recently the Peishwah had trea [[deletion]] t [[/deletion]] cherously murdered two English officers, and there was the danger of falling in with Pindarries, who had sworn to murder or maim any Englsishman whom they might capture; in fact the greater part of [[deletion]] his [[/deletion]] [[addition]] the [[/addition]] way would be through territory belonging to princes at war with England. For 150 miles southward palanquin bearers [[addition]] of [[/addition]] sixteen in a set had been laid in relays, and he started off; four baskets contain [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] [[addition]] containing [[/addition]] his clothes [[addition]] were [[/addition]] slung from the shoulders [[addition]] of [[/addition]] two bearers, and he [[addition]] himself [[addition]] carried a bag of biscuits, a telescope, his sword and pi ^ [[addition]] s [[/addition]] tols. In one of the first towns that he passed through thousands of bodies were lying unburied [[addition]] , [[/addition]] [[deletion]] they were [[/deletion]] the victims of the late epidemic; but [[deletion]] bfore [[/deletion]] he had ^ [[addition]] not [[/addition]] gone [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] far [[addition]] before [[/addition]] he [[deletion]] was continually [[/deletion]] [[addition]] began [[/addition]] falling in with small bodies of troops [[addition]] , [[/addition]] and on from now he was authorised to have an escort. Composed as there ^ [[addition]] often [[/addition]] were of native troops of a supposedly friendly Rajah, they were [[deletion]] often [[/deletion]] [[addition]] [[unclear]] [[/addition]] untrustworthy. [[addition]] While [[/addition]]Those of the Nizam of Hyderabad invariably arrived late [[deletion]] in the morning [[/deletion]]; [[deletion]] if piequets [[/deletion]] [[addition]] if [[/addition]] [[deletion]] were visited two or three hours after they had been set, seve- [[/deletion]] [[addition]] [[unclear]] [[/addition]] [[deletion]] bands of predatory horsemen who had been constantly on the [[/deletion]] The Pindarries were [[addition]] bands of [[/addition]] predatory [[deletion]] bands of horsemen [[/deletion]] [[addition]] horsemen [[/addition]] who had long been on the increase; landless men they would swoop down on [[addition]] the [[/addition]] [[addition]] villages, [[/addition]] carrying off all that they thought worth taking [[addition]] , [[/addition]] and leaving such inhabitants as they did not killl to die of starvation. It was as means of absorbing some of these men that the Indian cavalry was first formed. One of these corps - it was 3,000 strong was raised by a half-cast[[addition]]e[[/addition]] gentleman in the service of the Company, named Colonel Skinner whose bravery had procured him the name of Alexander the tradition the Emperor's bravey [[deletion]] having [[/deletion]] [[addition]] bravery had [[/addition]] been handed [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] [[addition]] down [[/addition]] all these year among the Hindoo military population
