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∗ On reaching Lakhau (8th March, 1662) the Mughal fleet numbered 323 boats (*Fathiyah*, 43). A few had been lost in a tempest before (Gait, 131). For the European mariners and the doings of the fleet, see the Dutchmen's narrative in Glanius, *Relation of an unfortunate voyage to the Kingdom of Bengala*, (1682), 140-183. Mir Jumla's army is estimated in the *Buranji*s (Gait, 129) at 12,000 horse and 30,000 foot, and in *Fathiyah*, 89, at ten or twelve thousand horse and numerous infantry. Useful information from Dutch sources in *Storia*, iv. 430 (Mir Jumla's original force consisted of 12,000 cavalry.) Manucci (ii. 98) gives him 40,000 horsemen, but that was the full contingent kept under the governor of Dacca (ii. 430). *Riyaz-us-salatin* gives Mir Jumla 20,000 efficient cavalry and numerous infantry.