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secured our bag, but Lutchman's nearly always 

 exceeded mine. When I extolled his skill and 

 pointed to his larger number of birds, he would 

 modestly remark : " My lord and father shoots for 

 pleasure, I kill for a living ; if my lord hunted 

 for a living, how great would be the load ! ' 



Lutchman was a fine specimen of a native 

 athlete. About five feet four inches in height, 

 with clean cut features, a straight nose, and small 

 flexible nostrils, he would be considered a good- 

 looking man anywhere. Well-shaped limbs, small 

 hands and feet, slim waist and sloping shoulders, 

 he could outrun all the men of his village, whether 

 in a short sprint or a five-mile race ; while at lifting 

 weights he was not far behind our stalwart North 

 Country and sturdy Cornish miners. Unlike most 

 of his clansmen Lutchman was a Lingayet by 

 religion, and he wore the Phallic emblem in a little 

 silver box on his right arm. Before starting on 

 an expedition of any kind, before beginning a race 

 or putting the stone, even before beginning his 

 day's work, he would touch the lingam on his 

 right arm with his left hand, and then touch 

 his forehead this being his method of asking a 

 blessing on his undertaking. A small section of 

 the Beydars are Lingayets ; the great bulk of 

 them worship the sanguinary goddess Kali. Tipu 

 Sultan forcibly seized a number of Beydars and 

 had them circumcised, hoping in this way to con- 

 vert them to Mahomedanism ; but the infuriated 

 tribesmen rose in rebellion, and retiring into their 

 strong hill-fortresses, or droogs, bid defiance to 



