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meantime it was decided that I was to buy 

 a tattu for myself to ride, and thus it 

 it would be supposed I was using my hack 

 to save the valuable horse who was led along 

 in clothing. It was soon known in the bazaar 

 that I wanted a good tattu, and by the 

 morning several very nice ponies were 

 brought for my examination ; after much 

 riding and inspection, my choice fell on a 

 pretty, plump little fellow who had been 

 carrying a fat old sauddgar (native 

 merchant), and he was understood to be 

 very quiet, sound, and enduring. I paid 

 eighty rupees for him, and subsequently 

 found that a better little animal was never 

 foaled. He was about twelve hands high, 

 with a pretty head and well arched neck, 

 and he went at the pacing shuffle, or amble, 

 that the natives delight in riding : it is 

 certainly the best pace for getting over 



