Notes

1 The hooluck is a black monkey, peculiar to Assam.

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2 Dhotee – the usual dress a native wears instead of trousers.

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3 Pundit – tutor or interpreter, who will coach you in a language.

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4 Khitmutghar – butler, table-servant.

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5 Bazaar – market.

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6 Belat – England.

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7 Khud – precipice, cliff.


8 Thoppa wallah – bearer, or man who carries Thoppas.


9 Nautch – ball.

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10 Mahout – driver.


11 Doolies – a sort of palanquin, made of cane, in which people are carried.

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12 Ghuddi – throne.

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13 Myouk – a civil officer in Burmah corresponding to an extra assistant commissioner in other parts of India.

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14 Shikari – sportsman, or a man who will go out shooting for you or with you.

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15 Baboo – native clerk.

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16 Kahars – hospital assistants.

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17 Bunnias – grain-sellers, provision merchants.

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18 Dhan – rice.

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19 Daôs – knives.

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20 Sais – groom.

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21 Peg – whisky and soda.

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22 Godowns – storehouses.

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23 Babu – office-clerk; used here as a term of contempt.

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24 2nd-4th – 2nd Battalion 4th Ghoorkas.