[Footnote 144:  A kind of native house-boat.]

[Footnote 145:  A heavy gun fired from a rest or stand.]

[Footnote 146:  A ditch or ravine.]

[Footnote 147:  Orme MSS.  India XI., p. 2901, No. 374.]

[Footnote 148:  A thick quilt used as a covering when in bed, or sometimes like a blanket to wrap oneself in.]

[Footnote 149:  Orme MSS.  India XL, p. 2915, No. 417.]

[Footnote 150:  Bengal Select Com.  Consultations, 22nd February, 1758.]

[Footnote 151:  I have not been able to identify this place.]

[Footnote 152:  A boatman.]

[Footnote 153:  See note, p. 88.]

[Footnote 154:  Orme MSS.  India XI., p. 2923, No. 432.]

[Footnote 155:  Orme MSS.  India XL, p. 2926, No. 438.]

[Footnote 156:  This expression is characteristically Indian, and is used when any one, finding himself oppressed, appeals to some great personage for protection.]

[Footnote 157:  The Nawab’s flag was the usual Turkish crescent.]

[Footnote 158:  Another Indian expression.  The last resource against oppression or injustice in India is to commit suicide by starvation or some violent means, and to lay the blame on the oppressor.  This is supposed to bring the curse of murder upon him.]

[Footnote 159:  This means simply that the Raja was not an independent ruler.  The sovereign owning all land, land revenue and rent meant the same thing.]

[Footnote 160:  This seems to want explanation.  Probably Courtin had got into some sort of house used for religious ceremonies, such as are often found in or close to the market-places of great landowners.]

[Footnote 161:  He probably refers to Mr. Luke Scrafton.]

[Footnote 162:  I.e. from his entrenchments.]

[Footnote 163:  “Courtin and his party arrived here the 10th.  They are 6 soldiers, Dutch, German and Swede, such as took service with the French when our Factory at Dacca fell into the hands of Surajeh Dowleit, 4 gentlemen, some Chitagon (sic) fellows and about 20 peons.  Courtin, on his way hither, has, by mischance, received a ball through his shoulder.  They demanded honneurs de la guerre, which Drake has not understood” (Scrafton to Clive, March 12, 1758).]

[Footnote 164:  According to Orme, Courtin’s force was reduct from 30 to 11 Europeans, and from 100 to 30 sepoys.]

[Footnote 165:  The manuscript I translate from contains only the postscript of the 10th of August.]

[Footnote 166:  A translation.  Clive generally wrote to French officers in their own language.]

[Footnote 167:  Such honours were not uncommonly granted.  Law was made a Colonel, so was another French partisan named Madec.  On the other hand, when a French gentleman had the choice, he often put his elder son in the Company’s service and the younger in the army.  Law’s younger brother was in the army.  Renault’s elder son was in the Company and the younger in the army.]