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giveness to all excepting the murderers, who would come in and give 

 themselves up unconditionally, and as they appeared to me to require a 

 severe example for their contumacy in attacking us, and also as my 

 instructions did not warrant my detaining the detachment in these 

 unhealthy jungles hunting a few individuals who might be apprehended 

 by offering adequate rewards, I directed the destruction of the village 

 and its defences, and after binding down the chiefs to seize and forward 

 to me the offenders should they ever enter their respective jurisdictions, 

 we commenced our retreat to the plains. 



On our arrival at Rungtoopara, I regaled the chiefs who accompanied 

 us with a good dinner, and lots of liquor, which they appeared to enjoy 

 amazingly, but nevertheless " Moonknal," the chief and his brother-in- 

 law, although fond of a good carouse, came into camp at an early hour 

 and slept there during the night, as in fact they had done since our 

 arrival, as a kind of hostages for the good behaviour of their dependents. 

 This they did of their own accord and not at my instigation. 



The morning after our return to Rungtoopara we commenced our 

 march back, and were honored by all the ladies of the different villages 

 we passed through coming out to look at us, and although all the beauty 

 and fashion of the Dusannee country was assembled, I must confess I 

 never beheld such a horridly ugly set. The women labor as hard as 

 the men, which of course gives them a coarse appearance, but still 

 amongst the youthful I could not discover a single creature with even a 

 pleasing expression of countenance. Their dress does not heighten 

 their charms, which consists merely of a broad band of cloth encircling 

 the waist and reaching half way down the thigh, the other portions of 

 the body being entirely exposed. Round their necks they wear innu- 

 merable strings of brass knobs, not unlike the heads of children's arrows, 

 and in their ears large brass rings of various sizes, and occasionally in 

 such great numbers that the wearer is compelled to put a strap through 

 them, and by passing it round the forehead, relieve the lobe of the ear 

 from the great weight attached to it, and which would teal through, 

 were it not thus protected. 



The women are I believe chaste, and intrigues with them are gener- 

 ally punished in a summary manner amongst the independent Garrows. 

 A man taken in open adultery, if not at once dispatched, is tried by 

 the heads of his village and sentenced to pay a large fine in expiation 



