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himself, as the Chunda could not buy the horse till pay- 

 was received. At this time Feroze Khan received the 

 original sum of 150 rupees standing incorrectly in his 

 name as a deposit in the chest, and another 50 rupees 

 made up as follows : 49 rupees paid to him by Lieutenant 

 Hodson's own servant, and 1 rupee from his private 

 account in the chest. It was the entry of this 49 rupees 

 in a memorandum attached to the payment of 1 rupee on 

 the 3rd of March which the Chief Commissioner drew my 

 attention to as the only item, bad as the state of Nujjuf 

 Alice's book was, that appeared to him really suspicious. 

 I have, therefore, carefully examined this, as well as the 

 previous entries, and though they are as irregular and out 

 of rule as they can be, I cannot under the circumstances, 

 and after having acquired a certain familiarity with Nujjuf 

 Alice's style of book-keeping, regard any one of them as 

 suspicious. The irregularity consists in the subj unction of 

 explanatory notes; but as this appears to have been the 

 moonshee's usual system, and as it is so very natural a one 

 for a man whose natural calling was certainly not that of 

 an accountant to pursue when his chief object was to keep 

 a record that he should himself be able to understand, and 

 when, in all probability, he may often not have fully under- 

 stood the nature of a payment till some time after it had 

 been made, that I cannot think that the fact of the entries 

 being irregular and explained by notes invalidates their 

 testimony. 



31. In the case of the 49 rupees above noted. Lieutenant 

 Hodson's recollection of the matter is, that when Feroze 

 Khan was going he had to receive 200 rupees for the horse. 

 The 150 rupees was paid him from deposit, and Lieutenant 

 Hodson told an orderly whom he believed to have that 

 amount of his in his charge to pay him the other 50. This 

 last sum, when counted by Feroze Khan, was found to be 

 short by 1 rupee, which Lieutenant Hodson then ordered 

 the moonshee to give him from his account in the chest. 

 The payment of 1 rupee to Feroze Khan from Lieutenant 

 Hodson's private account appears on the same day that 



