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the same night they must have again pushed forward on their raft, 
which was soon broken up on their arrival in rough water, where- 
upon they swam ashore, landing at the S. E. corner of the Island of 
Belookywn, near the entrance of the river. They were there seen by 
some villagers, who, suspecting them to be runaways, took them to 
their kyee-dan-gyee, or village elder, by whom they were taken proper 
care of, and forwarded into Moulmein. 
On the evening prior to their departure, they went to see Major 
Tickell, to whose charge they were intrusted, and appeared to be in 
particularly high spirits, patting him and others on the back, with the 
utmost good humour, and talking to each other in (to us) an unin- 
telligible language. When brought before Major Tickell on their 
return, they appeared just as good humoured as ever, quite unabashed 
and unconscious of having done wrong. They were very hungry 
when first taken, as might be supposed, and submitted unrepiningly 
to their destiny, very probably conscious that they had escaped a 
worse evil. 
Moulmein , June 10 th, 18G1. 
On the Identity of the Toramanas of Bran, Gwalior and Kashmir.— 
By Baba IIa.j e^iiralala MrTRA. 
Some months ago I received from Mr. Grote a number of Sans- 
krita inscriptions collected, at various times, by Colonel Alexander 
Cunningham, during his tours in central India. They are in fac- 
simile on paper, and prepared with great care and accuracy; but 
owing to decay and defacement of the stones from which they 
have been taken, most of them are full of lacume and ill-adapted 
to afford any reliable historical data. Of those which are legible, 
the most ancient appears to be a record comprised in 0 lines of 
the Gupta characters inscribed on a slab 2' 7 ,; by 7" inches. The 
position which the stone occupies is the porch of a temple in the 
fort of Gwalior, and the inscription is well cut and well preserved, 
excepting a small portion on the left side which, having been covered 
by the plastering of the adjoining wall or otherwise defaced, is 
quite obliterated on the facsimile. The first line of the record which 
contains a complete stanza in the malini meter has lost the initial 
syllable. The second has three syllables missing. The subsequent 
lines being in prose, it is difficult to say the number of letters that 
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