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point where the miners penetrated, they found a nar- 
row passage running east and west, just large enough 
to admit a man of moderate size. It was unencum- 
bered and in complete repair, and on being explored 
was found to communicate with other galleries of the 
same description leading in a transverse direction, and 
each was found to open into a small apartment under 
the body of the building. In the centre room was 
found a rough sort of round table with a couple of 
settles, and on either side a tolerably comfortable bed 
of raw cotton, an old straw hat, a clasp knife, a 
small German pipe, an iron ladle, in which metal had 
been melted, a few small files and other tools, such as 
are used in coining, and a little bag containing some 
unfinished imitations of rupees. Some few trifles of 
the same description were also discovered in different 
corners and recesses of the vault, and also a supply of 
tobacco and spirits. 
There was no hesitation in at once attaching suspicion 
of very recent occupancy of these snug quarters to the 
two men of the European Regiment who had deserted; 
and deeming it probable that they might make their 
appearance to clear away all vestiges of their illicit 
trade, as soon as they should hear of the mining oper- 
ations which were going forward, the officer gave or- 
ders for a guard to be secreted in the building, to keep 
watch during the night. 
It so happened, I suppose by a private arrange- 
ment of the saint, that this very night was that of the 
