370 A DISPUTE. 



and two of our people, R.'s kitmagar and 

 bearer, asked the fellows in charge to sell 

 them some milk, and each separately got 

 a licking for his pains. This rather put us 

 on the qui vive, so leaving Colls in his doolie, 

 the rifles, &c. behind, we assembled our band 

 of hill men, and went back two miles to 

 inquire into the affair. 



As every fellow, expecting a row, had 

 armed himself with a big stick, we looked 

 rather formidable, but on reaching the sheds 

 occupied by people in charge of the cattle, 

 we found the men absent and their better 

 halves left in charge of the sheds. They 

 vowed the men had all gone to Budrawer, 

 upon which they were told, that unless they 

 produced the delinquents, we would drive 

 off their cattle, and added, we should then 

 probably cut their throats. These empty 

 threats had no effect, the men were still 

 kept concealed, so the whole herd of bufla- 

 loes were driven off to our breakfast place, 

 followed by the whole posse of old women, 

 howling and begging to have the cattle 



