38 TWO YEARS IN THE JUNGLE. 



ceeded to sell us the ghee. But he would not touch that chattie 

 with his hands ! Not he. He handled it with two sticks as though 

 it were the dead carcass of some foul animal ; and all because I drank 

 water from it once. 



After three hours' work in the crowded, hot, and dusty bazaar, 

 we drove down to where the boat lay at the bathing ghaut, the 

 boatmen quickly carried our cargo aboard, and with a feeling of 

 profound relief we let go our moorings and drifted down the 

 stream. 



