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I am not without friends in the Indies, my dear boy; there are princes in that land whom I have assisted to their thrones; and if, on behalf of a friend, I ask of them some slight thing, provided it be honest 'tis the first law of friendship, says Tully, as you will remember, to seek honest things for our friends if, I say, on your behalf, I proffer some slight request, sure the nawabs will vie to pleasure me, and the foundation of your fortune will be laid."
By 1763 the East India Company had established a controlling influence over the Nawabs of two important regions, Bengal and the Carnatic, and had shown, in a series of struggles, that its control was not to be shaken off. But the company had not annexed any territory, or assumed any responsibility for the government of these rich provinces.
It furnishes them with maharajas, nawabs, rajas, and chuprassies, according to their rank, and it usually throws in a house, a gaol, a doctor, a volume of Aitchison's Treaties, an escort of native Cavalry, a Star of India, an assistant, the powers of a first-class magistrate, a flag-staff, six camels, three tents, and a salute of eleven or thirteen guns.
Desmond did not like his Latin, but he found compensation in the traveler's tales of which Diggle had an inexhaustible store tales of shipwreck and mutiny, of wild animals and wild men, of Dutch traders and Portuguese adventurers, of Indian nawabs and French bucaneers.
Is it to be like a durbar at home, when all the rajahs and nawabs come together with their elephants and trains?" "Oh, no, no, no!" cried Glyn, laughing. "Nothing of the kind." "Then, why are they making all this fuss? It said on the bills we saw yesterday in the town, `Ramball's Wild-Beast Show. Grand Procession."
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