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was backed against him. The mark was a 

 bottle hanging from the yard-arm, and at Mcer 

 Ali Moorad's request his antagonist took the 

 initiative, and at the first shot broke the bottle. 

 " Very good," said the Meer, " but I think I can 

 do better ; you see the bit of string by which 

 the neck of the bottle still remains suspended. 

 Now, I will cut that bit of string without touch- 

 ing the neck of the bottle." To the astonish- 

 ment of every one the Meer did so, although the 

 neck of the bottle was oscillating so quickly that 

 the string was hardly visible. On the following 

 morning we sighted the Munora light-house, 

 which marks the entrance into the harbour of 

 Kurrachee. The fishermen of the port have 

 a tradition that a venerable saint was drowned 

 somewhere in the eastern seas, and that the 

 fishes brought his body for interment to Mun- 

 ora, then a little sand-bank, which, after the 

 saint had been buried there, rapidly increased 

 in size, until it had attained its present pro- 

 portions. 



