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was cocked and brought to the port, but I prevented 

 liim from further hostile demonstrations by a sah:ite 

 in mother tongue. Our meeting was strange, both 

 took a pretty good stare, and then mutually men- 

 tioned each other's name, for we had met before, and 

 Avhere ?— in no less distant a portion of the earth 

 than in the realms of the Tycoon. A restless spirit, 

 a crack shot, and passionately fond of field sports, 

 the world was his demesne — and where game was 

 abundant, there he would be found, Avhatever were 

 the dangers tliat surrounded it, laughing at hard- 

 ship and privation, the bitters that make the sweets 

 of life the more enjoyable by contrast. 



Securing my animals, I accompanied him to the 

 party to which he had attached himself; they had 

 only lately left civilization, and through his interest 

 my equine companions got a feed of corn, to which 

 they had long been unaccustomed; the night passed 

 discussing old friends, a flask of brandy, and a pack- 

 age of kill-a-kinnick tobacco ; and when on the mor- 

 row I shook his sterling hand at parting, before re- 

 commencing my journey, he presented me with a 

 couple more feeds of grain, which, without doubt, ma- 

 terially assisted my four-footed fiiends in rapidly 

 traversinsT the balance of the debatable orround. 



