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the girl was run away, I answered it is not true, her corpse is hid among the long grass; - and I desired her to go back and inquire more particularly. She did not go back – but went towards her own house and came again with another woman. I took the two women to the place from which I saw had seen the prisoner and his wife hiding the girl’s bdy; and I showed them the place, telling them that the prisoner had concealed the body under the long grass. The two women went into the prisoner’s house. I staid into among the Cotton Trees. A Woman Two Women who were call’d the Mahaldarnee
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