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be met with, quite intelligent, always cheerful, 

 and willing to Avork. He entered my service stark 

 naked, but at his departure had accumulated an 

 extraordinary varied Avardrobe. Every cast-ofF 



pair of trousers, drawers, 

 boots, and shoes, every 

 coat and waistcoat 

 thrown aside 

 had been 

 carefully col- 

 1 e c t e d by 

 him, and all 

 that he could 

 not actually 

 wear on his 

 oAvn person 

 was accumu- 

 lated in an 

 old sack ; in 

 were also many 

 e r treasure s, 

 smashed pipebowls 

 and stems, empty 

 provision tins, ex- 

 ploded cartridge 

 cases, and every ima- 

 ginable odd and end. In addition he took with 

 him two blankets, two spades, and two golden 

 sovereigns in lieu of the goats which I had pro- 

 mised him, but could not procure. These two 

 latter he concealed away in alternate and numerous 

 coverings of bags, cases, and again bags and wrap- 



As he arrived. 



