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" You are a very bad man. How dare you 

 cheat the lady. You have just sold the same to 

 my Appu for thirty cents, and you ask the lady 

 for seventy-five cents. Boy (turning to the 

 Appu) tell him he is a cheat, and a swindler, 

 and he is never to come here again*" 



The man seems quite impervious to these 

 little amenities, but smiles sweetly, and says, 

 "The lady can have it for thirty cents." 

 After this, business proceeds on a more 

 satisfactory footing, everybody makes good 

 the deficiencies in his or her wardrobe, and 

 the Tambi leaves, you may be sure, not 

 having got the worst of the encounter. 



March — 24th. To-day our head Kangany, 

 by name Cuitlingen, starts for the Indian coast 

 with his very pretty daughter, in search of a 

 husband. He has heard of a possible one, 

 and goes himself to see if he is suitable, 

 if not, she is to be brought back again, and 

 married here. The poor girl is quite in good 

 spirits, and looked very bright and cheerful 

 when she came to say good-bye, and she told 

 Rob she would get her husband to bring 

 her back here to live. As she knows no 

 English I was not able to speak to her, much 

 to my regret. A little brother accompanies 

 her who is to be left in India. The father 

 came to Raneetotem from India, when quite 

 a little child, in the old coffee days, and has 



