Folard, and many other judicious writers observe, that in proportion as infantry is bad, and the military art declines, the number of horse increases in our modern armies; because, say they, "An able general at the head of a good infantry, can do anything, and wants but a small cavalry." It is certain that when the infantry is good, much may be done with it; and if it is bad you must increase your cavalry to keep the enemy at a distance, as you must have a great quantity of heavy artillery for the same purpose. I must now take leave of Paniput with the remark, that formerly a treasury was established there, Kurnaul furnishing the necessary guards. About this time there was a considerable change in the weather. The days for the most part were hot and oppressive, and towards noon even sultry. On the 5th of April I rode to Sunput, about seventeen miles. On the 6th I started, at half past two in the morning, in the midst of a complete hurricane, and proceeded to Barah Duree, a Chokey, or Police Station, near Alepore. The road was excessively sandy and fatiguing, the distance being sixteen miles and a half. On the 7th I rode to Delhi, eleven miles and a half, and encamped outside the walls of this famous royal city of the Moguls, close to the Cashmere gate. I had now travelled 313 miles and a half, since I quitted Lahore, a distance which I accomplished in twenty-two marches. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 42: Thanadar, keeper of a public station. The word likewise means commandant of a military post.] [Footnote 43: Francklin's Life of George Thomas, p. 66.] [Footnote 44: Grant Duff, in his History of the Maharattas, agrees with Casi Rai in making the paid horse and infantry as in the text, and estimates the predatory horse and followers at 200,000. Casi Rai makes the whole number to have been 500,000. _Asiatic Researches_, vol. iii. p. 123.] [Footnote 45: Roh means a hill; the Rohillas are the Affghans, who settled in Rohilkund on the return of Ahmed Shah to Cabool.] [Footnote 46: The Dooranees were so called from Ahmed Shah Abdallah, who assumed the name of Dooree Dooraun, "Pearl of the age," when after seizing the sovereignty of Affghanistan, he was crowned king at Candahar, in the year 1747.] [Footnote 47: A day kept as a holiday by Hindoo Princes, when, if war be intended, the campaign is opened.] [Footnote 48: Ἁμφἱ δἁρ ωμοισιν βἁλετο ξἱφος ἁργυρὁηλον, ----αὑτἁρ ἑπειτα σἁκος μἑγα τε στιβαρὁν τε. _Homer's Iliad_, ii. 204, 205.] [Footnote 49: The British used rockets on a small scale in 1817, against the Fort of Hattrass; but they have never tried them against troops.] [Footnote 50: See Appendix XIX.] [Footnote 51: Chiefs often ride on war elephants to be better seen by their troops. An Indian queen has thus led her van in the battle field. Should the elephant be struck down, or the chief fall wounded from his elephant, the fortune of the day is generally decided.]