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saluted us by touching our feet with the tips of their 

 fingers, and then raising them to their foreheads. 



On the slope of a hill, surrounded by a small patch 

 of Indian corn, stood the hamlet, which consisted of 

 about half-a-dozen log-huts, each containing a single 

 apartment ; and one of the largest, by the orders of 

 the Bey, was cleared out of its occupants, consisting 

 of an indiscriminate medley of men, women, children, 

 ponies, sheep, goats, cows, buffaloes, geese, fowls, &c., 

 and given up for the accomodation of my people and 

 horses, being sufficiently roomy to contain all com- 

 fortably. 



I was conducted to the "de wan-khan a," or guest- 

 house, and introduced to the elders of the tribe as the 

 " Ingleese Bey," where, after pipes and sherbet had 

 been handed round by boys, I had to undergo a long 

 series of cross-questioning as to the recent events of 

 the war. 



At last my revolvers, which I always wore loaded 

 in my belt, in case of accident, attracted their atten 

 tion, and they all jumped up thunderstruck when I 

 explained their action ; but I was not believed until I 

 had exhibited their powers by lodging ten bullets in a 

 small circle of a walnut-tree about twenty paces 

 distant from the door of the hut. In order more 

 strongly to impress upon their minds the nature of 

 our armament so as to gu'ard against any attempt at 

 treachery, I directed one of the boys to hang a dry 



