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salt-works of the Indian coasts the sur- 

 plus produce of the inland provinces, 

 returning with salt for the supply of 

 their inhabitants. Hardy, persevering, 

 bold, owing nothing to favour, unrival- 

 led in their knowledge of their country, 

 these Lumbadies, or Brinjaries, as they 

 are called in some parts, have ren- 

 dered services not only valuable, but 

 indispensable to the Indian populations 

 and their rulers. Soon the railroads will 

 have usurped their functions, fulfilling 

 them, of course, far more efEectively; but 

 not the less does the " old order " and 

 its service deserve grateful and lasting 

 remembrance. 



By this time the bales of cotton are 

 being piled rampart- wise upon the ground, 

 and the camp fires are alight. The sun is 

 just sinking into the western sea, within 



