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darchoon* on the new road . When out shoot- 

 ing, a villager informed me that some of those 

 animals came every night to feed in a gram 

 field about half a mile from my tent ; as there 

 were not any large trees near the spot, and 

 I could not conveniently get a michaun erected 

 for want of some of the materials/ 1 had a pit 

 dug as before represented,, and took with me 

 an Harcarrah, two guns, one single and one 

 double barreled, and a spear., at twelve o'clock 

 at night I had a shot at a Nylgau, which 

 I severely wounded. It was found dead the 

 next day at a considerable distance from the 

 pit. About half an hour afterwards we heard 

 a murmuring of voices, and presently saw a 

 number of men armed with match -lock-guns 

 spears, bows and arrows, and swords; al- 

 though I understood the common hindoo- 

 stanee language tolerably well yet I could not 

 comprehend a word they said, but the Harcar- 

 rah told me that they were debating whether 



* It takes its name from a hot spring near it, 



