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district being notorious for robbers^ we picketed tlie liorses 

 at dark within a quadrangle of fires — not an unnecessary pre- 

 caution ; for in the middle of the night we heard very sus- 

 picious low whistle-calls several times repeated, which gave 



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vigour to the " AUrto I " of our guard The Timorese are very 

 clever horse-stealers, I understaiul, and, by abducting them 



thieves 



off from the veiy side of their owners, the astuter 

 among them have obtained the reputation of being Swangtes, 

 who have the pov.er of making their bodies invisible. 



