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[[deletion]] ral invariably proved to have absconded while [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] [[addition]] the [[/addition]] habit of living on the country had been so deeply engrained in the [[deletion]] m [[/deletion]] ^ [[addition]] men [[/addition]] that though they all posses handkerchiefs, the Colonel's demonstrations with his own [[addition]] , of [[/addition]] how easily a day's ration could be carried in [[deletion]] them [[/deletion]] [[addition]] one [[/addition]], [[deletion]] were [[/deletion]] [[addition]] had proved [[/addition]] all of no avail. The country was studded with formidable forts [[deletion]] which had been [[/deletion]] built by [[underline]] the [[/underline]] Rajahs, but while villages were generally cluste[[addition]]r[[/addition]]ed round them. anywhere outside the territory under English protection, [[underline]] the unfortunate villagers [[/underline]] had always to be armed [[addition]] , [[/addition]] and no sooner had their harvest been gathered than it had to b[[addition]]e[[/addition]] buried. Colonel FitzClarence took part in an engagement at Jubbulpore when the enemy was completely routed, and it was th[[addition]]e[[/addition]] skill with which he had executed a plan of this engagement which led to hi[[deletion]]m[[/deletion]][[addition]]s[[/addition]] being asked to make plans of several other skirmishes an to make plans [[addition]] and sketches [[/addition]] of several forts. On his way he passed a red brick ^ [[addition]] building [[/addition]] which denoted where a widow had been burnt with [[underline]] her husband's body. [[deletion]] In deference to [[/deletion]] Indian [[deletion]] beliefs [[/deletion]] [[addition]] susceptibilities [[/addition]] it was only in the Mahratta Ditch at Calcutta that Suttee [[addition]] [[unclear]] [[/addition]] had so far been [[/underline]] a [[addition]] b [[/addition]] olished [[deletion]] although [[/deletion]] [[addition]] [[deletion]] [[unclear]] had first to be [[unclear]];[[/deletion]] [[/addition]] the Mahomedans were very much opposed to [[deletion]] it [[/deletion]] [[addition]] Suttee [[/addition]]. One of the things which had very much interested Colonel FizLarnece had been the evidence of the immense volume of trade which had flowed between India and Venice beofore the Cape of Good Hope had been discovered; as an example he quotes how a debt of a 1,000,000 had been
