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confidence in their faith ; and made engagements 

 to settle on their chiefs an inconsiderable monthly 

 sum, in consideration of their good and peaceable 

 behaviour and obedience, to which they have rigid- 

 ly adhered ; and this, it is related, put an end to 

 their predatory incursions and marauding. The 

 Kirisvary cast crossed the Ganges and lived in tents r 

 having no settled habitation. The Hindu and Mus- 

 sulman remained in this country. The Kawdeer went 

 to- the south ; and this remained doubtful, till a party 

 of them came to dig a tank for Mr. Cleveland. 

 The Kirrateer went to the north hills of the Ganges, 

 I cannot learn what names the brothers had, nor 

 how they were provided with wives, to increase and 

 multiply ; the creation of women does not bear 

 any part in this defective account, which proceeds to 

 relate, that God the Creator directed certain wombs 

 to be fruitful. His commandments are, that men 

 should give to such as will receive -, and that, in 

 like manner, others would give to them. By la- 

 bour men must live ; for this their hands were made -, 

 eyes were given to see with, the mouth to speak 

 good and bad, as well as to eat sweet and sour, and 

 the feet to walk. Abuse nobody without cause ; 

 neither kill nor punish, without a crime, or God 

 will destroy you. These commands being sent, cer- 

 tain wombs were fruitful. But some men forgetting 

 these divine ordinances, abused, beat, and oppres- 

 sed each other without cause ; when, the measure 

 of their crimes being full, he summons them to his 

 presence ; the messenger carries sickness and death : 

 On the sinner's appearing before God, being charg- 

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