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IN TIMES OF PERIL.
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troops. The rajah and their fellow-countrymen endeavored in vain to dissuade them, but the former, finding that they were determined, gave them dresses as native womenm furnished them with a guide, and sent them across th© river in a boat—for they were on the Oude side—with a message to a zemindar there to help them forward.