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ever, disposed to submit to sucli exaction, lie 

 positively refused, and the result was that the 

 Jemadar confined him in his own house, a 

 large building with a court-yard and guard- 

 house near the gate, over which was an Arab 

 sentry, with a matchlock and several of his 

 brethren at hand. Apart from the annoyance 

 of such confinement, the Rajah was treated very 

 well, and he had the liberty of walking in the 

 court-yard, the gate of which gave upon the 

 street, and was by day always open. 



" One morning he was thus walking up and 

 down the yard, when a horsekeeper, leading a 

 very fine Arab horse, passed down the street. 

 The Rajah had previously looked at horses 

 thus passing, and been in the habit of convers- 

 ing with the horsekeepers, and with the Arab 

 sentry; so it occasioned no surprise when he 

 spoke to the man, asking to whom the horse 

 belonged, his age, and so on, as he stood in the 

 gateway. He took up one of tlie horse's feet, 

 felt his legs, looked into his mouth, and did all 

 that a regular horse-fancier would do ; at length 

 he told the horsekeeper to take off the cloth, 

 which having done, the Rajah, to the astonish- 

 ment of the sentry, vaulted on to the horse's 



