AFTER OORIAL. 



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ally breaking off small branches and collecting them into 

 bundles. We followed his example ; and the oorial, no 

 doubt taking us to be village woodcutters, after a few 

 suspicious glances settled down again to graze. We pre- 

 tended to work hard for about a quarter of an hour, when, 



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HEAD OF OORIAL, SHOT AT NUKPOOR. 



the oorial seeming to be quite reassured, Mahomet and I 

 placed our bundles of wood on our heads and slowly 

 retired by the road we had come, Mahomet telling the 

 others not to leave the place, and to continue to make 

 a pretence of cutting grass and wood. 



A turn of the road soon hid us from sight, and then 



