Gentlemen,—
Please to pay to Ens. Gernon, or order, the sum of Rs. 500, on account of,
Gentlemen, your obedient Servant,
Dominick Capsicum,
Lieut.-General.
To Messrs. Princely & Co., Agents.
“Generous old man!” I exclaimed, “such snuff as this is indeed useful at a pinch, though, unlike most snuff, by no means to be sneezed at!”
The next day I devoted to hiring a bolio, and some other matters.
A bolio, it may be necessary to inform the reader, is a boat constructed on a somewhat similar plan to the budgerow, but longer and narrower, and more confined in its accommodation.
I was to pay Rs. 100, or about £10, for a journey of 700 miles. Tom also ordered his jewellery, visited his agents, and made sundry arrangements connected with the coming event.