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should find the bull dead, and that consequently the flesh 

 would not be lawful food for him and his co-religionists ; 

 hence his laziness. 



We were sorry to leave the Dandelly jungles, but our 

 leave was up, and we were obliged to return to cantonments. 

 Hayward also had had good sport, and we had a fair show of 

 sporting trophies packed on our baggage ponies on our return. 

 In commemoration of the expedition, our washerman, who 

 accompanied us, cut a bamboo about eighty feet in length, and, 

 hiring coolies on the road, bore it to the fort at Dharwar, 

 where we afterwards saw it supporting a flag at his favourite 

 shrine. We fully intended to have made another explora- 

 tion in the following year ; but getting our marching orders 

 in autumn, we moved to Kolapoor, and since then the 

 Dandelly jungles have been to me but a dream of the past. 



