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"Well, he's a boy to keep an eye on, and I only hope that tigers or dacoits or the Nawab's Moors won't get hold of him; he's the kind of lad we can't spare. Now, let me know the state of your troops." When he had sent off his note to Major Killpatrick, Desmond enjoyed a short spell on deck preparatory to turning in.
"As I afterwards learned, the police had caught one of the Dacoits trying to effect his escape, and by means of a little of the ingenious torture to which the Indian police then frequently resorted, when their white officers were absent, they obtained from him the exact position of Sivajee's band, and learned the side from which the ascent must be made.
So I nipped up and took a look round and dropped my eye on the dacoits making straight for us." "Good for you, Jack," replied Buck. "That's saved all our lives, for a certainty." A groan of misery behind them drew their attention. They glanced over their shoulders and saw Me Dain seated on his rock, a picture of shame.
Halliday stated that the police of Bengal were more feared than the thieves and dacoits. But how is this Government, so occupied and so embarrassed, to be expected to put the police on a satisfactory footing?
The night-watchman; his jingling-stick; his slumber. Village night-scare. Supposed dacoits. The village chowdi: lads sleeping in it. It must be confessed that snakes are one of the drawbacks of country life in India, especially after dark. That they are not an imaginary source of danger is shown by the tremendous total in the annual returns of those killed by snakes in British India.
It must have been three or four miles away, but it was on the side of the Ghaut, and showed that the troops or police were at work. My guards looked anxiously in that direction, and uttered sundry curses. When it was dusk, Sivajee and eight of the Dacoits came up.
This lot were low-caste men and their weapons were mostly old muzzle-loading muskets." "Perhaps they were just ordinary dacoits," hazarded a planter. "Possibly; but they must have been new to the business," replied the Major. "For there wouldn't be much of an opening for robbers in the middle of the forest." "It's a puzzle. I can't make it out," said Granger, shaking his head.
"Very useful; and you must learn to shoot well with them, and with fowling-piece and rifle. What with river thieves, and dacoits, and wild tribes to say nothing of wild beasts a man who travels about, as I do, wants to be able to shoot straight. The straighter you shoot, the less likely you are to have to do so.
On looking through the official papers at the time, he had found Captain Mansfield's report, in which he stated that, on the night after leaving the fort, the troops, which had been reduced to half their original strength, had been attacked by a party either of dacoits or irregular troops.
What were those creeping figures among the rocks down there? A second later he knew them, and aroused his sleeping companions by a low, fierce cry. "Up, up! Buck! Jim! Get your rifles at once. The dacoits are on us!" The two men were on their feet at once. "Dacoits! Dacoits!" growled Jim, dashing the sleep from his eyes and gripping his weapon. "How in thunder do they come on us so soon?
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