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highly approved of this sentence, and amidst the 

 hootings, groans, and expletive execrations of the 

 party, the image was dug up from the spot where it 

 had, perhaps, rested for centuries, and after having 

 been mutilated by Ali Beg, and subjected to the 

 vilest abuse and ridicule, was thrown in the lake ; 

 none of the Hindoos, however, venturing to lay a 

 finger upon it. 



We slipped quietly away without any of the gang 

 discovering our presence, and after turning over the 

 affair in my mind, knowing the character of my 

 people, I resolved to work upon their superstitious 

 fears to my own advantage ; and some few days 

 afterwards, whilst out deer-stalking, I watched an 

 opportunity, when the Gooroo was separated from 

 the rest of the gang, and approaching tolerably near un- 

 perceived, hid myself under a large mass of parasitical 

 plants, and called out in a disguised low sepulchral 

 voice, " Oh, Perriatumbie, Perriatumbie ! " (his real 

 name, " the Gooroo" being a cognomen given to him 

 by the gang, on account of his having some pretensions 

 to priestcraft and sorcery) "am I not the God Hani- 

 man, whom you and your wretched associates caused 

 to be defiled and thrown to the bottom of the tank ? 

 I am not dead, as you will find, although I have been 

 eight days in the water; I can see you, although 

 Ali Beg tried to put out my eyes; I can hear, 

 although my ears are disfigured ; I can smell your 



