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5 One of these, opposite to whom he sat, I being behind him, was evidently the favourite tho' both were young & pleasing in expression - As we floated down the stream in the twilight, the paddles being lazily plied by our female sailors, my lord occasionally condescending to assist them there in their toil & between the intervals of his labor, discussed with this wife their evening meal & the topics of the day - a portion of food being passed to the less favoured lady in the stern who with rather a pensive expression occasionally joined in the conversation. The first had the childlike simple expression common to the Indian women & its pleasing