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the House. He said see this Saumma, sleeping here. I ask’d how she came there, He said I fell asleep and she ran away and slept here. I desired the Prisoner to awake her. The Prisoner uncover’d her face, she appear’d dead – foam came out of her Mouth. The Prisoner ask’d me, since she was dead what he should do. I advised the Prisoner to go and inform his Jemmatdar and Subadar. I told him every One knew he used the Girl very ill and beat
her