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Asvin, in Cassinaut’s new Bazar.
Dotteram & Monyram were in partnership with me.
We lived in the prisoner’s compound about a Coass distant [from] our shop.
It is not a permanent shop but I carry goods to that bazar & expose them to sale on a plank. I used to sell Tobacco, Betel, & salt. I left off selling those articles & took to selling vegetables.
As I returned home one night I saw a woman whom I used to call familiarly Mashy (i.e. Aunt) a crying – why? – “I have lost my child.” The child’s name was Gunga. [He was then