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accompanying me, were in great glee, shouting to 

 each other as they darted among the trees, or raced 

 through the more cultivated parts, running and 

 leaping as they went over the low cotton-bushes 

 that stood in their way. Much to my astonishment, 

 on rounding the shoulder of a projecting ridge, we 

 came in sight of the town of Farree, situated not 

 a quarter of an hour's walk to the west of Dinno- 

 malee. We threaded our way across the few fields 

 that intervened by a narrow path that reminded 

 me of the narrow church-ways across cultivated 

 lands in England. Then ascending a steep eleva- 

 tion, of about two hundred feet high, by a rough 

 stony road, entered an open depressed space, 

 between four or five pap-like elevations into which 

 the summit of the hill was divided, each of which 

 was surmounted by a little group of houses, whilst 

 the concavity in the midst formed a kind of green, 

 or market-place, in the centre of which was a low 

 enclosure of loose stones surrounding a few young 

 mimosa-trees. Suspended from several of the 

 branches I saw the tail, and a long slip of the skin, 

 of a hysena, with some similar remains of wild cats, 

 hung up as trophies, and as an instructive lesson to 

 the wild animals in the neighbourhood of the evil 

 results of pilfering hen-roosts or folds. 



I rested myself awhile against the " madubbah," 

 or stone fence, upon which sat several Hy Sou- 

 maulee perched as if upon a roost, until our guide 

 returned, he having gone to select a house and 



