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1786. Sessions [Tuesday] Dec. 12

Pistols belonging to different People. I reported my loss to Mr. Motte. I advertised them at One Hundred Rupees reward. I heard nothing of them. A few days after I was walking down the Cossitullah Bazar between Eight and Nine o’Clock in the Morning. I saw a Boy with a Gun on his shoulder which was remarkably long, coming near him I knew it was one of the Guns I had lost. I took hold of the boy and ask’d him how he came by the Gun, it was a young
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