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exhaustion follows in a very short time, although I 

 have seen both spotted-deer and antelope brought in 

 alive, having been caught in this manner. 



Our leave was now nearly expired, so we were 

 obliged to commence a retrograde movement, and, 

 having packed up our trophies, we returned to 

 Bowani, where Mother Garrow, a very Paphian 

 queen, was awaiting our arrival with a formidable 

 array of dusky nymphs. For three days we kept up 

 a continuous nautch, and even after that time we were 

 not tired of gazing upon the graceful pirouettes of 

 the fair votaries of Terpsichore, or listening to the 

 warbling of the dark-eyed songstresses as they sang on 

 the old subjects, " Love and War ;" and, when the 

 time came for us to take our departure, more than 

 one shed tears as the farewell words were spoken : 

 indeed if "Rumour with her many tongues" spake 

 true, it was discovered, soon after our departure, that 

 there were vacancies to be filled up in the Pagoda of 

 the dark mysterious goddess. 



Oh, D , " I could a tale unfold " that would 



raise up a spirit on thy fireside, that all the soft* 

 sawder of thy oily tongue would never calm ! But I'll 

 spare your feelings for the sake of " Auld lang syne " 

 and the jolly days we spent together in the merry 

 green woods. 



We got into Trichy just in time, for two days after- 

 wards the monsoon broke, and there was a continuous 

 downfall of rain, which inundated the whole country. 



