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the people. They killed with their arrows 

 several small animals,, a peacock, and an 

 owl of large size, and most beautiful plumage. 



To one of the young men who was extreme- 

 ly active, I gave an English sixpenny clasp 

 knife, and when I shewed him how to open it, 

 he was so delighted that he fell on the ground 

 salaming, [the most submissive obeisance] 

 and I could not prevent his accompanying me 

 two days march on my return. 



The inhabitants of the hills near Monghier 

 and Bauglepore called Pahariahs; are of 

 short stature, with large flat noses, and their 

 hair is like wool; altogether they resemble the 

 Africans on the coast of guinea. In small 

 Nagpore the people are much of the same sta- 

 ture, with the same kind of hair, and are cal- 

 led Coles and Daungers. * In the interrne- 



* Daungers in a body of fifty to a hundred, leave their 

 own country in search of work and go to Gyah, Patna^ or 

 Penarcs., or wherever there are large works going on, as 



