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of the bottom of the cart was fitted with a hair 

 mattress, and the sides were well padded, so that 

 I managed, when travelling, to get along pretty 

 comfortably. 



With posted bullocks I could generally average 

 about four miles an hour; and as I halted only 

 during the heat of the day, I managed to get over 

 the ground pretty quickly for India. 



My battery, on which I prided myself very 

 much, consisted of a brace of ten-gauge rifles by 

 Purdey ; a double rifle and two smooth-bores eight- 

 gauge by Westley Richards ; a double rifle by 

 Burrows of Preston ; two fowling-pieces, sixteen- 

 bore ; a Purday and a long Joe Manton, botli 

 clipping shot-guns ; a long four-bore duck-gun by 

 Fullard, (after a single discharge of which I have 

 picked up seventeen duck and teal ;) and a German 

 pea-rifle. 



A large Yankee backwoodsman's axe, a couple 

 of bill-hooks, an adze, and other tools, were fitted 

 against the side of my cart, so as to be ready at 

 hand in case of a break-down, which is an event 

 of frequent occurrence in Indian travelling. An 

 obstreperous bullock or a careless driver is very 

 liable to smash a pole or a yoke en route; and, 

 in many parts of the country where game abounds, 

 village smiths are difficult to be met with, and I 

 have often been saved hours, and even days' delay, 

 by having the means of repairing them at hand. 



A well-supplied medicine-chest, in which the qui- 



