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The women then accompany her into the bridegroom's house, which, however, they leave soon afterwards. The music is kept up in front of the house until late in the night. It is only the marriages of the lower classes that are celebrated in this manner. There is a road leading from Puna to Pannwell, a distance of seventy miles, and travellers can post all the way.
From Pannwell to Bombay the journey is made by water. I adhered to the cheaper baili, and Mr. Brown was so obliging as to procure one for me, and to lend me a servant. On the 15th of March I again set out, and on the same day arrived at Woodgown, a village with one of the dirtiest bungalows in which I ever made up my bed. 16th March. Cumpuily.
Travellers embark, towards the evening, in boats, and proceed down the river Pannwell to the sea, reaching Bombay about morning. I had safely completed the long and tedious journey from Delhi to Pannwell in seven weeks.
They are inured to all manner of hardships, live chiefly upon rice and water, and their disposition is represented as being morose, revengeful, and savage. They excite themselves to fighting by means of opium, or Indian hemp, which they smoke like tobacco. In the afternoon, I reached the little town of Pannwell.
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