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that he allowed us to have our cups of 

 coffee without hurrying us, which he was 

 in the habit of doing by locking up our 

 sugar in the patarah, or box in which it 

 travelled, giving us no time to take a 

 second lump. The fact was evident ; 

 being thoroughly unused to take any wine, 

 the bumpers he had taken with us the 

 previous night had been too much for him, 

 and he had a splitting headache, if one 

 might judge by the piteous groans he gave 

 vent to, when he thought he was sufficiently 

 far from us not to be heard. 



Our course to day was over some bleak 

 plains and steep mountains, so that I do 

 not think we fired a shot. We were on 

 our way to a famous jungle where we 

 believed we should be repaid with good 

 sport, and, as the result proved, it was 

 well worth the journey, though the road 



