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Then we began to talk, and Adam, by way of crushing Victor's repeated reminders that he and not "that other" was the owner of the calf, said: "It is true I have no cow's child, but a great dacoity has been done on my father." "We came up together yesterday. There could have been nothing," I said. "It was my mother's horse. She has been dacoited with beating and blows, and now it is so thin."
Those beginning a business continue to the end." "Thou wilt continue to the end? Dost thou not know who did the dacoity?" Strickland shook his head. Adam turned to me with the same question, and I answered it in the same way. "What foolish people!" he said, and turned his back on us. He showed plainly in all our dealings afterwards how we had fallen in his opinion.
The Lynngams possess no head-hunting customs, as far as it has been possible to ascertain. These people are still wild and uncivilized. Although they do not, as a rule, give trouble, from an administrative point of view, a very serious dacoity, accompanied by murder, was committed by certain Lynngams at an Assamese village on the outskirts of the Lynngam country a few years ago.
"But, my dear fellow, it is a climb of thirty-five feet at the very least." "You remember the cry in the back lane? It suggested something to me, and I tested my idea successfully. It was the cry of a dacoit. Oh, dacoity, though quiescent, is by no means extinct.
Hartley was making out a report on a case of dacoity against a Chinaman, but the light in the room was bad, and he pushed back his chair impatiently and shouted to the boy to bring a lamp. His tea was set out on a small lacquer table near his chair, and his fox-terrier watched him with imploring eyes, occasionally voicing his feelings in a stifled bark.
Karim was arrested, with half a dozen accomplices named by Chandra Babu. They had no difficulty in proving that they were attending a wedding ceremony five miles away on the night of the alleged dacoity. So the case was reported to headquarters as false; and Chandra Babu escaped prosecution for deceiving the police, by giving a heavy bribe to the Sub-Inspector.
He had, in fact, been a famous hunter-out of Dacoity. "I didn't know you went in for that sort of thing," pursued Sir John, watching Mr. Molesworth, who, with a penknife, was trimming the ends of gut. "Don't mind my watching your first cast or two, I hope? I won't talk. Anglers don't like being interrupted, I know." "I shall be glad of your company: and please talk as much as you choose.
The spirit evoked showed itself in the youth of Bengal by a practical revolt, led by the elders, while it was confined to Swadeshi and Boycott, and rushing on, when it broke away from their authority, into conspiracy, assassination and dacoity: as had happened in similar revolts with Young Italy, in the days of Mazzini, and with Young Russia in the days of Stepniak and Kropotkin.
In the Dacca district, a few years ago, there was a big dacoity. A Deputy Magistrate was ordered to secretly investigate the matter and, if possible, to capture the miscreants. Besides his cook and personal attendants he took with him some policemen. All were disguised. They travelled in several small boats. It was late in the evening as they neared the place, where the burglary had occurred.
There was no idea of insurrection on a large scale, but we were going through one of those outbreaks of Dacoity which have several times proved so troublesome.
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