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had omitted to notice. " Sahib," he 

 said, " do you authorize us to shoot 

 down these men if we see them in our 

 jungles ? " 



My point of view having all along 

 been that of resistance to attack, the 

 question was new to my mind. I could 

 not tell my men to shoot strangers at 

 sight like 'deer, so I instructed them to 

 call upon all comers from the hostile 

 quarter to surrender, and to use their 

 weapons only in case of resistance or 

 attack. 



These arrangements made, or rather 

 while they were in progress, I ordered 

 my people to prepare to carry out our 

 tour of settlement exactly as had been 

 proposed, and met with no further 

 remonstrance from them. We had 



