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said: well you may leave the watch & to-morrow – will show the [ILL] it to. Some gentlemen, & let you know what they will give for it. Saum left the watch; & the Deft put it into the hand. of his servant telling him to give it again to him, when he went out next morning. I did not particularly [ILL] the watch, [ILL] was in the deft’s hand; but I observed, that it had a piece of red string to it.

4th Wits for Deft
Giridher Babu.
I know Saum Shah his father was a man [ILL] circumstances & dealt in [ILL] & in planks: when the father died, he left a house & some property to two young children, & when Saum grew up he used to be employed as a mate – Sercar Last Answer. I was Banian to Mr. Higgs & Mr. [ILL], & Saum was [mate-sercar?] under me; [ILL] he carried