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instead of " buck." The latter he told us he always calls 

 a "stag." 



Thursday. — Alan went off after antelope, and I started 

 to ride to the next halt — a village called Rayah. Bullock- 

 carts arc easier to pack than camels, but certainly do not 

 travel faster. To make certain of a tent being up on arrival 

 we sent on one cart overnight. 1 had not cantered along the 

 road ten minutes before I overtook tins cart, which has 

 established a record of doing a mile in fourteen hours. For 

 the driver solemnly asserts lie has never once stopped since 

 we started ! 



It was a horrid little camping ground at Eayuh — the 

 railway on one side, the prison on the second, a very dirty 

 pond on the third, and the graveyard on the fourth. I tried 

 to object, but was overruled by our people, who like to 

 be near a village. They assured me "all Sahibs come 

 here." 



From the look of the fourth side, they seem to have 

 remained. 



They brought me a chair from the adjoining police 

 station ; but it was three hours before our bullock-carts 

 arrived, and the ayah told me a piteous tale, how she and 

 Santan and the cook had walked beside the oxen " beating 

 them all the way, else they would never have arrived 

 come." Alan, "arrived came "with quite a different tale. 

 He had passed them halted on the road, each asleep on their 



