EOBBEEIES AND MUEDERS. 
’wauted, and that they womld be at Gampola on a certain 
(?ay and hour to receive it, and for this trouble, or 
rather for his own profit on the transaction, he used 
to charge £2 per cent on Colombo cheques, or £l lOs. 
on Kandy ones. After this, the chetties took it up, 
and saved the trouble of going even to Gampola, by 
l>ringing up the cash direct to the estate, we not even 
handing them a cheque, until the money was all 
counted out on the table. 
On looking back on these times, it seems cuiioua 
that so few robberies, or even attempts at robbery, 
were made. Any one systemat ically carrying on this 
method in England or Scotland would soon be 
watched, marked, robbed, and murdered, yet thegoing- 
to-Kanrly-f or- money period was well known, often for 
days before. Preparations were made, coolies sent 
off in advance, and often the cool’es advised, a 
number of days beforehand, of the very day and 
hour when they were to be paid. Not only so, but 
the coolies sent in advance info Kandy would openly 
proclaim at every bazar they passed, and to every 
passer-by with v/honi they were on speaking ac- 
quaintance, that they were going for money, and master 
was coming. So well aware did they seem of when 
master was going to Kandy and when pay-day was 
to be, that I used frequently to tell them that they 
knew more about it than I did. The only bad 
case of attempted robbery and murder which I can 
at present bring to my recollection was that of A'lr. 
John Palcoiier, on the Lhlawella road, which must 
have been about tlie ye r ’06 or ’67, the particulars 
of which must still 1»e in the memory of many. * 
Experience teaches. The smash of the money-bag on 
the Atabage Pass taught me never to carry money 
in mat bags, and so Iliad made to Older a strong 
canvas one. Toss it and tumble it about, it would n’t 
hurst ; it was made on a similar plan to a long purse, 
l or equal quant i'ies of rupees v/ere put into each end, 
a (1 tied tight up, so as not to Jingle. This was tbrowu 
over the front of the saddle, where it balanced itself, 
• It is curious that Mr. Millie should forget the 
case of poor Morgan of Deltota, who was undoubted- 
ly murdered for the sake of the money he carried, 
but which the murderers failed to secure. After 
being shot twice, the jxior fellow was able to ride 
on, carrying the money with him, until he reached 
friends who v/atched over his last hour and received 
liis dying message to his mother. The motive for 
Falconer’s murder was understood to be not robbery 
but revenge ; he had been at court for a warrant, 
not for money. — Ed. 
