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On the Irrawaddy

CHAPTER 7: On The Staff
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I know that Hitchcock paid sixty pounds apiece for them, at Calcutta.

They are both Arabs, and good ones, and were not dear at the money.

Our opinion is that, if they were put up to auction here, they would fetch 40 pounds apiece; and that the saddle and bridle, holsters, and accoutrements would fetch another 20 pounds.

There are also a pair of well-finished pistols in the holsters.

They were overlooked, or they would have been put up in the sale yesterday.


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