They are generally armed with a matchlock, a couple of swords, with three or four small daggers stuck in front of their belts, and a shield.

On common occasions of attack and defence they fire but one bullet, but when hard pressed at the breach they drop in two, three, and four at a time, from their mouths, always carrying in them from eight to ten bullets, which are of a small size.

We may calculate the whole number of Arabs in the service of the Peshwa and the Berar Raja at 6000 men, a loose and undisciplined body, but every man of them a tough and hardy soldier.

It was to the Arabs alone those Provinces looked, and placed their dependence on.

Their own troops fled and abandoned them, seldom or never daring to meet our smallest detachment.