Makochera has been an elephant hunter.

Few acknowledge as a reason for slaving that sowing and spinning cotton for clothing is painful.

I waited some days for the Nassick boys, who are behind, though we could not buy any food except at enormous prices and long distances off.
_7th June, 1866._--The havildar and two sepoys came up with Abraham, but Richard, a Nassick boy, is still behind from weakness.

I sent three off to help him with the only cordials we could muster.

The sepoys sometimes profess inability to come on, but it is unwillingness to encounter hardship: I must move on whether they come or not, for we cannot obtain food here.