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every purchase that we made, b\it it was not until we took an 

 elephant ride, that we found out the full depth and breadth of 

 Bishesh Arnath's capacity in this respect. Here we detected him 

 actually stealing half the money which we gave him to purchase 

 food for our elephants, leaving the poor brutes half starved and 

 us wondering at their unamiability of temper. At first I was 

 eager for his arrest and strongly resolved to make an example of 

 him, but friends from Delhi, who had accompanied us on the 

 excursion, took it quite as a matter of course, and advised us to 

 pass it quietly by as a native characteristic. This we did, but 

 when, at our departure, he came cringing for a certificate or re- 

 commendation, we in a manner "got square " with him by writing 

 the following in his book, with which he was delighted, and left 

 us, promising to show it to every American traveller with whom 

 he came in contact : 



" Bishesh Arnath has acted as guide for us in Delhi and vicinity for several 

 days. He is a man after our owa heart, and has acted with us on the principles 

 which have guided us through life. He knows all the best shops, and under- 

 stands ' addition, division, and silence.' In short, he belongs to our school of 

 humanity, and we heartily recommend him to all who wish to deal with men of 

 like progressive stamp. 



(Signed) 



Here we filled in the names of two most notorious public char- 

 acters of America, one of whom is now in prison, it is to be hoped 

 permanently, and the other, in the opinion of many people, 

 deserves to be. In connection with the names, aU Americans will 

 quickly understand the character of Bishesh Arnath, and I hope 

 that it may protect other travellers from his little schemes. 



OUE TIGEE HUNT. 



Our tiger hunt, by the way, was not a success. Of course a 

 visit to India without a tiger hunt would be Hamlet with the chief 

 part left out, and when I arrived in India the most prominent 

 feature of my slumbers were dreams of killing "man-eating" 

 tigers by the score, and chief among my avocations during the 



