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jiiahai, as the manufacture of indigo is called ; while 

 through the entire year there is a vast quantity of 

 administrative or kutcherry work to be transacted with 

 the native cultivators. This forms the midday occu- 

 pation of the planter, who, unless when manufacturing, 

 has the cool hours of the morning and afternoon in 

 which to ride over the dehat, or outlying cultivation, and 

 to amuse himself with his horses and dogs. 



Although indigo has no direct connection with racing, 

 it has had a sufficiently indirect one, as far as I and 

 many of my friends are concerned, to warrant a brief 

 digression about Tirhoot ; for did I not recruit from 

 that land of the leel {Anglicc indigo) those good horses 

 Rebecca, Vesper, Red Gauntlet, Dolly Varden, Exile of 

 Erin, and others ? 



While I was at Mozufferpore I often went to stay 

 with Mr. Edward Studd at Dhooly, and with his 

 assistant, Mr. C. R. H. Webb, at Birowlee. The master 

 of Dhooly and Mr. Henry Studd of Dhurriah are sons of 

 the well-known " Salamander" Studd, who, in his early 

 days, being an accomplished rider and good judge, made 

 money in India with horses, and raised himself to opu- 

 lence, later on, by speculations in indigo. He pursued 

 the old game on his return to England, and effected one 



