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own stick that he recd the [hort?] nor [from] the stick of another.
Mahommed Khan laughed & then asked the Prisoner how he had hurt himself, he said by a splinter [of?] the Bamboo. Let me tell you now that The Deposition [which] I made before Mr. Mercer was taken by Force.
I have told you that Mr. M’s Munshy said to me you must not think that by swearing on the Ganges water you will obtain your Release.
The Dep: is true except time & place [which] I inserted by guess.
M. D. “You have said in that Def: that Mahommed Khan & a Khalassy struck him several times & a stroke fell upon