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in the last rains – I don’t remember in what month. I saw, when I went thither. Bad Ullah & the prisr sitting in the verandah of the T’hana with Asmet Ullah, Budder ud Din, (a man who practices as a vakeel at the Court of requests & before Mr. Motte), Sittaram who is naib of Calichurn, and 2 prisoners whose feet were in the stocks – sevl paics were also sitting near.
I asked Prisr why he was there. The prosecr answered for him “He has stolen my things & he is here.” I asked Bad Ullah what things? – whereupon Sitaram brot out these brass things & also a Hoka snake. I then