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backwoodsman's axe, as well as the implements of 

 his profession, and Perriatumbee, who usually went 

 by the abbreviation of " the Gooroo," on account of 

 his havincr some pretensions to priestcraft, carried a 

 large leather " musliuk" or skin containing water. 



To Naga, the Mulliary whom Chineah had en- 

 listed in his late reconnaissance, I entrusted a gun, 

 and furnished him with the bill-hook and short 

 spear, with which weapons all my people were armed, 

 as they served not only as a protection, in case any 

 of them were detached, but also as a kind of badge 

 which showed they belonged to the shekar gang. 

 Besides my own regular shekarries, I engaged four 

 coolies to carry my traps through jungle-paths where 

 carts or ponies could not go. 



I had given orders to my head servant to see that 

 every man was provided with a new pair of " chup- 

 ples" or sandals, a dark " langooty" or waist-cloth, 

 and a " combley jule" or country blanket, made of 

 coarse wool, as I could not afford to have any of 

 them laid up with sore feet or illness ; and the day 

 before they were to start I had an inspection parade, 

 at which each man appeared in his new tog, equipped 

 for the road. 



B did the same with his followers, and we 



had our tents pitched, our horses and dogs picketed, 

 and our coolies, baggage-ponies, and bullocks ex- 

 amined, so that we might be certain that nothing 

 requisite was left behind, and everything in order. 



We had a large double tent for ourselves, whilst 



