"حياة ومراسلات اللواء السير جون مالكوم، قائد فرسان وسام الطُهر، المبعوث السابق إلى بلاد فارس وحاكم بومباي؛ من رسائل ومذكرات غير منشورة. في مجلّدين. المجلد II." [‎١‎٧‎٨] (٦٥٤/١٩٥)

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behind him, and rode on as rapidly as the state of the
roads would allow him to advance. He was "nobly
mounted on a grey Persian horse called Sultan, of great
beauty, strength, and spirit." On those wearisome
marches, he said, he could not bear to find himself on
the back of any other horse, though he had several noble
animals with him.
On the 20th of September, Malcolm and his compa
nions entered the province of Berar,* and on the 24th lie
arrived at Nagpoor. "After the wettest and one of the
most fatiguing journeys," he wrote, " which I have yet
had—during which I was forty hours in going ninety
miles, on horseback, in a palanquin, and on an elephant
—I reached (on the 23rd) the tents of my old friend
Jenkins, the Resident of Nagpoor, who had come out
twelve miles to meet me. Next morning we moved to
wards the city. The Eajah, Appa-Sahib (a young man
of twentyf), came out to welcome me. We alighted at
one of his gardens, where he gave us a very excellent
dinner, and made me the usual presents."
At Nagpoor, Malcolm spent eight or nine days—days
of incessant and laborious activity. His work differed
little from that which had occupied him at Hyderabad.
He had to make, or rather to complete, the arrangements
which were being made for the supply of the army with
money and provisions. In the performance of this duty
he encountered no small amount of intrigue and cupidity.
There were some eager, from political motives, to thwart
* Concerning the state of this conn- f In another letter, Malcolm de-
try, Malcolm tells the following anec- scribes Appa-Sahib as " a good-looking
dote : "I asked a Jemadar of Horse, young man of about twenty-two years
who is a native of the province, in what of age—of pleasant countenance and
state it was. c Much impoverished,' manners—very inquisitive and intelli-
was the reply. ' True,' said an old gent. He is, however, young and in-
Mysore _ horseman, who was riding experienced, and from desiring to rule
near; ' it is impoverished. But the himself he becomes a shuttlecock oi
poverty of Berar resembles the wealth different parties."
of other countries.'"