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Here the story-teller broke off as a rider upon a grey horse came at a foot-pace round the slope of Burrator below us and passed on without seeing. It was the Rajah, returning solitary from the hunt, and his eyes were still fastened ahead of him. "Ah, great man! England is a weary hole for the likes of you and me.
Burrator House in those days belonged to the Rajah Brooke Brooke of Sarawak who had bought it from Harry Terrell; or rather it had been bought for him by the Baroness Burdett Coutts and other admirers in England.
A better proof of the progress the country is making cannot be shown than by comparing the revenues of 1877-78 185,552 dols. and 197,855 dols. respectively with that of 1871, which was only 157,501 dols., thus showing an increase of about £40,000 in seven years. On the 11th of June, 1868, at Burrator, in Devonshire, Sir James Brooke breathed his last, leaving Sarawak to his nephew, Mr.
"As you please; we'll strike out the bed, then," the Rajah answered. That is how he took possession. Burrator House, as I daresay you know, faces across the Meavy upon Burrator Wood; and the wood, thanks to Terrell, had always been a sure draw for a fox.
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