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small advance of pay to be left with their families, 

 and I gave them a trifle to be expended in making 

 caste ceremonies, and offering Poojahs to their fa- 

 vourite deities, so that each might propitiate his 

 Savvmy for good luck on the expedition. 



The Gooroo rendered himself very conspicuous by 

 killing a sheep in front on an image of Cajasoura- 

 mardanam, (the god of Hunting,) who is represented 

 with four arms, having a lance in two hands and 

 curious reptiles in the others, clad in a tiger's skin, 

 and seated upon that of an elephant. 



