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Carder tribe, joined the gang, whom we found very 

 comfortably established. The next day, sent down 

 into the low country for six bullock-loads of rice and 

 curry stuff, a dozen sheep, a couple of milch goats, 

 and a gross of fowls, for whose reception we prepared 

 places, after which we made a reconnaissance of the 

 jungle round about our hut, near which several old 

 elephant-spoors were distinctly visible, and one of the 

 wood-cutters, who accompanied us, told us that some 

 of his people had seen a herd a short distance from 

 their huts at Cawderpuddy, where they were engaged 

 in cutting timber two days previously. 



I therefore arranged with B , who was suffering 



from dysentery, and hardly fit for hard work, that 

 I should start with Chineah, Googooloo, and two 

 others of the gang, early on the morrow, to recon- 

 noitre, leaving him, with the rest of the people, to get 

 everything ship-shape in the huts. Accordingly, 

 at day-break, we started, under the guidance of the 

 wood-cutter, and a couple of Carders carrying axes, 

 provisions for three days, and large comblies, or 

 goats'-hair blankets, to serve as coverings. 



We soon arrived at Cawderpuddy, where we found 

 about twenty men engaged in cutting timber. Here 

 we learned that a herd of fifteen elephants, amongst 

 which were two tuskers, had been seen quietly 

 browsing in a valley some three miles off, the morn- 

 ing previous, by some women, who had gone there to 



