I have given orders, today, for one of the Company's ships of war to take you and your escort to the mouth of the Ganjam; and express messengers have already started, with orders to the commandant to provide waggons to carry your tent, equipage and stores.

You should, if the winds are favourable, reach there in four or five days' time." "The carts will delay us, sir, and without them we might make forty miles a day, after we have landed; for the horses of this country have great endurance." "A few days will make no great difference.

There are no towns of any importance on the road to Nagpore, and you would have to put up at wretched khans, and would be considered as worthy of little consideration; whereas I wish you to travel in a style suitable for my agent, and to impress the native mind with your importance.
"Have you horses ?" "I have but one, sir, and a pony for my servant." "You must purchase another, and a good one, with showy equipments.
You will, of course, charge that and all other expenses, and your appointment will be a thousand rupees a month.

I have no doubt the rajah will lodge you handsomely.

Should he not do so, you had best encamp outside the town.