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His manners are said to be much changed since his first arrival 

 at his present dignity ; he was then haughty and imperious, 

 he is now friendly and affable, a great favourite of Mr. Hunter's 

 and all Europeans frequenting the port. In the evening Coon-sit, 

 the son of the Praklang, who is intimate with Mr. Hunter, 

 and whom he meets on terms of perfect equality, came in for an 

 hour to our residence ; he is a modest and unassuming man, of 

 considerable intelligence ; he writes English pretty well, un- 

 derstands nearly all that is said to him, and speaks a little. 

 He has considerable mechanical talent, and has just finished 

 a ship on an English model of about 400 or 500 tons ; he is 

 by some said to be an eaves-dropper, and to take advantage 

 of his intimacy with Mr. Hunter to listen to and report to 

 his father any inadvertent remark made by Europeans. 



Memoranda respecting the existence of Copper in the territory 

 of Luz, near Beta. By Captain De la Hoste, Assistant 

 Quarter Master General, S. R. F. 



[Communicated to the Society from the Political Department, Government of India.] 



During the absence on sick leave from the Sinde Reserve 

 Force, Captain George Boyd, of the second Grenadiers, perform- 

 ed my duties, and having heard that antimony was procurable 

 near a place called Shah Bellawl, he sent one of the guides to 

 survey the road to that village, and make inquiries on the sub- 

 ject of antimony being found there. 



On the return of the guide (second guide Esso Rama) he 

 brought with him specimens of lead as well as of antimony, 

 both of which were sent by Captain Boyd to Dr. Hedde, Assay 

 Master in the Mint, Bombay. Having shortly after arrived and 

 assumed charge of my appointment, it became my duty to 

 extract the route from the guide's field book, when on ques- 

 tioning him respecting the place to which he had been (Hoja 

 Samote) I found he had been informed, that in former days 

 copper, silver, and gold had been found in the mountains near 

 that village. Considering the report worthy of being inquired 

 into, I sent for the brother of Navillull, named Sukkaramdass, 

 and asked him if he had ever heard any thing of the report ; 

 he informed me that he had, and that a banian of Knrrachee 



