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It didn't uplift us to hear that plague was very bad all round, and after a somewhat jungly dinner during which we were very thoughtful and disinclined for conversation, we sought our mildewed couches, to rise again at skreich of day and continue our journey, till late on Tuesday night we got out finally at Baratah station and drove out to our present camping-ground.
We left Baratah yesterday morning and got in and out of trains all day until about seven in the evening we got out finally at Manpur.
"Or better still," said the Moorwife, "you might let it alone," "Ah," said the man, "that would be pleasanter and easier." How true! Baratah, Thursday, Feb. 28. We are still in Baratah, as you see, and shall be till Tuesday. It is a very nice life this nomadic existence, and one gets nearer the people.
Here come the children flying, followed patiently by the old khansamah with a spoon in one hand and a bottle of cod-liver-oil emulsion in the other. I had better finish this letter and get the ink out of their reach. Baratah, Thursday, Feb. 21. ... Now we are really camping out, and I sit outside my tent even as Abraham did of old. I have a whole long day before me to write.
You can laugh if you like, but I think it was enough to frighten a very Daniel. As for me, in one moment I was well under the blankets, with fingers in both ears, and I suppose even in the midst of my terror I must have fallen asleep, for the next thing I knew was daylight and the cheerful sound of voices. Baratah is quite a large town, and has a Roman Catholic Mission and two lady doctors.
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