CHAP. VIII. 



PEOPLE BREAKING UP A MARKET AND DESERTING 

 A VILLAGE, IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE ARRIVAL 

 OF MY ELEPHANT WITH A TENT. JOY EXPE- 

 RIENCED BY A NATIVE ON RECEIVING A COM- 

 MON KNIFE AS A PRESENT. THEIR EXTRAOR- 

 DINARY METHOD OF ASSEMBLING AND SPORT- 

 ING. AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL INHA- 

 BITANTS OF THE HILLS. OF IRON MANU- 

 FACTURERS, AND THEIR SIMPLE METHOD 



OF MAKING THE IRON. OTHER SPECIMENS 



OF THE SIMPLICITY OF THE PEOPLE, SHEWING 

 HOW THEY RESEMBLE THOSE MENTIONED IN 



OUR SACRED HISTORY. THEIR METHOD OF 



BREAKING IN BULLOCKS FOR PLOUGHING. AN 



ANECDOTE THAT OCCURRED ON A HOG HUNTING 

 EXCURSION. 



HAVING an Iron concern at Pitturea, in small 

 Nagpore, I had occasion to go there. My ele- 

 phant, laden with a tent, arrived at the place a 

 short time before me ; it happened to be on a 



