As I could not wait another day, it was determined that I should return his visit in the afternoon; and about four o'clock we set out upon our elephant--Lieutenant Thomas, Sarîmant, and myself, attended by all my troopers and those of Sarîmant. We had our silver-stick men with us; but still all made a sorry figure compared with the splendid _cortège_ of the Râjâ. We dismounted at the foot of the stairs leading to the Râjâ's hall of audience, and were there met by his two chief officers of state, who conducted us to the entrance of the hall, when we were received by the Râjâ himself, who led us up through two rows of chairs laid out exactly as mine had been in the morning. In front were assembled a party of native comedians, who exhibited a few scenes of the insolence of office in the attendants of great men, and the obtrusive importunity of place-seekers, in a manner that pleased us much more than a dance would have done. Conversation was kept up very well, and the visit passed off without any feeling of ennui, or anything whatever to recollect with regret. The ladies looked at us from their apartments through gratings, and without our being able to see them very distinctly. We were anxious to see the tombs of the late Râjâ, the elder brother of the present, who lately died, and that of his son, which are in progress in a very fine garden outside the city walls, and, in consequence, we did not sit above half an hour. The Râjâ conducted us to the head of the stairs, and the same two officers attended us to the bottom, and mounted their horses, and attended us to the tombs. After the dust of the town raised by the immense crowd that attended us, and the ceremonies of the day, a walk in this beautiful garden was very agreeable, and I prolonged it till dark. The Râjâ had given orders to have all the cisterns filled during our stay, under the impression that we should wish to see the garden; and, as soon as we entered, the _jets d'eau_ poured into the air their little floods from a hundred mouths. Our old cicerone told us that, if we would take the old capital of Orchhâ in our way, we might there see the thing in perfection, and amidst the deluges of the rains of Sâwân and Bhâdon (July and August) see the lightning and hear the thunder. The Râjâs of this, the oldest principality in Bundêlkhand, were all formerly buried or burned at the old capital of Orchhâ, even after they had changed their residence to Tehrî. These tombs over the ashes of the Râjâ, his wife, and son, are the first that have been built at Tehrî, where their posterity are all to repose in future. Notes: 1. December, 1835.