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and trotted off in high dudgeon. When the day broke, Anup 
proceeded to do a little ploughing before resuming his excavations 
at the hillock ; but as he passed that spot, one of his bullocks dropped 
down stone-dead, and within a few days the remaining two bullocks 
which he possessed died also. Upon this he deserted that place, 
and took up his residence in the village where he now lives. This, 
he says, happened three years ago, and till last year he concealed 
these copper pieces, which he believed to be gold; but thinking 
he might then realise something by them, he carried them off in 
great secrecy to Mr. Heyne, to whom he imparted the information 
of where he had found them, But this little indiscretion brought 
fresh troubles on him ; for when he returned home, his little girl 
sickened and died. For this reason he said he never would tell 
another soul where the hillocks were and much less would he 
venture near the locality to point them out. 
‘I believe the man from his demeanour to have been thoroughly 
sincere in his belief that evil would befal him, if he disclosed any- 
thing further that would lead others to the place ; for I used every 
kind of persuasion without avail, and even offered him Rs. 20 on 
the spot, but he begged me not to press him and assured me in a 
whisper that Mr. Heyne knew the exact place, as he had made a 
note of it in his pocket book. Finding now that such is the case, 
it is clear that the man had no motives of personal .gain, as I at 
first thought, in withholding the information from me; whilst the 
fact of his refusing the Rs. 20, being under ordinary circumstances a 
most unusual trait of native character, proves that his fears were 
at all events genuine.’ 
The Chairman, in soliciting any remarks which the members 
desired to offer on this very interesting find of Captain Samuells, 
said, that the specimens which he would send round, were, if intend- 
ed for weapons or implements of any kind, of the rudest form, There 
could not be a doubt that they were, one entirely so, and 
the other to the extent of more than half its surface, simply the 
bloom, derived from the small copper furnaces which were known 
to have been in use with the old smelters or workers in copper in the 
country, and of which little smelting pots examples still remained, 
One, as he said, was entirely so. It bore all the marks of the fine 
earth or sand into which it was run, a rudely circular or slightly 
