We generally found them ready enough to assist us, as we paid pretty liberally for their services, and made love to all the young women that the villages contained.

With an eye to a successful campaign, I laid in a liberal supply of trinkets to please these aboriginals, and found that they served their purposes admirably.

So the natives were almost universally kind to us, and their reluctance to accompany us on this occasion showed the great fear they entertained of the tiger.
We were camped on the bank of the Ousuree, about ten miles from the village, and passed the night without disturbance.

In the morning, while we were preparing for breakfast, one of the natives went a few hundred yards away, to a little pond near, where he thought it possible to spear some salmon.

He waded out till he was immersed to his waist, and then with his spear raised, stood motionless as a statue for several minutes.