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sand, I think there is not a doubt of. At all events, the find was 
an interesting one, and I was consequently induced a few days ago 
to start off from here with the intention of visiting the locality, and 
having further excavations made under my own superintendence. 
I, therefore, went last Friday to the village where the finder of the 
articles lived, and on his appearing before me, he produced another 
piece of copper of the same weight as the supposed axe-head 
(83 tbs), but elliptical in shape. What this can have been it is 
hard to conjecture. The native informed me that he had found 
five pieces altogether, three of which he gave to Mr. Heyne,* one 
to Mr. F. Peppé, the manager of the Gawan Estate (District 
Hazareebagh) and the fifth he that day put before me. He got 
them all within a cubit’s depth of the surface of a hillock which 
covers an area of about 4 local cottahs (7. ¢., about 10 or 12 cottahs 
of the Bengal standard measure), and there are, he says, several 
other hillocks near it, some larger and some smaller. But he 
refused to point out the locality, and gave a whole string of frivo- 
lous excuses for not doing so; but when I got him to myself he 
told me the true reason, and I cannot refrain from relating it as it 
is a curious instance of superstition. 
‘It appears that this man, whose name is Anup Teli, cultivated 
land about this very hillock, and he told me that the night after he 
found these things, he had a dream in which a bhut of terrible 
aspect appeared before him. He was no ordinary looking spirit, 
but of prodigious proportions, his skin being red and his clothes 
black, whilst a profusion of hair hung down his back from his 
head to his heels, each hair being as thick as aman’s wrist. Hav- 
ing dismounted from a tiger which had carried him to Antp’s 
door, he entered the hut and pointing to the copper pieces, in- 
formed Anip that they were his (the dbhut’s) property. Anup 
at once expressed his willingness to give them up, but the bhit 
was for none of them. He wanted in exchange four hairs off 
Anup’s right knee, and in the bargain offered to relinquish all 
claim to the treasure which he said lay buried under the other 
hillocks in that locality. But the much-coveted hairs Anup 
would not part with at any price. So the d/iut mounted his tiger, 
* Two of these were taken to Calcutta, by Dr, F. Stoliczka, Palecontologist, 
Geological Survey of India. 
