Crossword-Solution: TONJON 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The Bishop's entrance into the sacred city of Benares he describes to his wife thus: "I will endeavour to give you an account of the concert, vocal and instrumental, which saluted us as we entered the town:-- "_First beggar_.--Agha Sahib! Judge Sahib, Burra Sahib, give me some pice; I am a fakir; I am a priest; I am dying of hunger! "_Bearers trotting under the tonjon_.--Ugh! ugh!--Ugh! ugh! "_Musicians_.--Tingle, tangle; tingle, tangle; bray, bray, bray.

His procession accordingly entered, commencing with flag-bearers, then camels, elephants, a native band, empty tonjons and palanquins, tribes of sotaburdars, punkaburdars, assaiburdars, burchyburdars, and all sorts of burdahs, when the tonjon bearing the mighty man himself followed, and was accompanied by numbers of horsemen, who galloped about in all directions, going through an indiscriminate sham fight.

After tiffin, the general, the cornet, and myself, went out to visit the fort and the neighbourhood, which I had a desire to see; the former, being old and infirm, rode in his _tonjon_ (a sort of chair-palankeen); my friend and I were on horseback.