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cover it over with blankets and dry bhoosah (bran), and 

 shut the door, securing the outsides, so as to prevent 

 the possibility of any wind entering into it. In about 

 15 days the indigo will be ready to go again to the 

 machans, and should be removed thereto, keeping 

 each day's work separately as before. Proceed now 

 cautiously, and gradually remove the outside cover- 

 ings of the door, and then the bhoosah, &c., from off 

 the heap of cakes, a little by little each day, for four 

 or five days ; it being a grand point not to expose 

 the indigo too soon to the effects of the external air, 



as sudden exposure would crack and break the cakes 





 to pieces. 



N. B. The above process is advantageous, since it 

 gives a brilliancy to the colour of the indigo, and 

 the now-so-much-prized white skin to the cakes. 



All factories do not have sweating houses. 



Lastly. The indigo being thoroughly dry and fit 

 for packing, and your chests (generally made at 

 the factory of mangoe-wood tarred) ready, clean the 

 cakes, but do not polish them ; then begin pack- 

 ing ; placing equal quantities of indigo in each box. 

 Should you not have sufficient of one day's work to 

 fill up with, note the quantity of each day's cakes so 

 many of No. 5 and so many of No. 27 (as may be) 

 in chest No. and be sure to let the muster cake 

 truly show the mean quality of the indigo in the chest 



