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THE HUNTER'S ARCADIA. 



kill the brutes that had eaten their comrade, yet 

 although we searched the hill-sides, we could not 

 see a sign of them." 



This was a long speech for our new friend to 

 make without getting thirsty, but he made up for the 

 delay by the size of the drink he took to moisten his 

 parched lips when he was finished. There is one 

 thing to be said in his favour, he was exceedingly 

 liberal with our liquor to his friends : if he should 

 be so to his attendants with what is his own, he is 

 doubtlessly considered a jolly good fellow. From the 

 border warfare then being carried on between these 

 tribes, ammunition had become exceedingly scarce 

 amongst them, thus Master Bareekie importuned 

 us in the most beseeching manner for a trifling 

 supply, and after much pressing I consented to give 

 him a couple of pounds of gunpowder, on condition 

 that he would turn out all his available people to 

 assist us on the morrow in a grand battue ; further, 

 that he should lend us a couple of his attendants 

 to conduct us to the next water, who, in turn, were 

 to procure us two guides to show us the way to 

 Honey vley. 



