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 them; and with it many lesser boats, with thatched and sloping roofs. The dandies and native servants, having finished their day's work, were preparing their khauna, in distinct parties, according to their several casts, upon the banks of the river: some grinding their mussala, some lighting their little fires, some washing their brass vessels, and others sitting in a circle upon the ground smoking their cocoa-nut hoo-