Going Forward. [Because there are tracks of bare feet, some ridden over, others overriding the wheel track, but always keeping along it, i.e. two men pulling in front, two pushing behind.]
[Had they been independent wayfarers they would have walked on the smooth, beaten part of the road.]
The men were going at a walk. (Because the impression of the fore part of the foot is no deeper than that of the heel, and the length of pace not long enough for running.)
One man wore shoes, the remaining three were barefooted.
One wheel was a little wobbly.
Deduction
The track was that of a rickshaw conveying an invalid in comparatively humble circumstances, for a constitutional.
Because it went at a slow pace, along a circular road which led nowhere in particular (it had passed the cemetery and the only house along that road), at an early hour of the morning, the rickshaw being in a groggy state and the men not uniformly dressed.
Note.—This deduction proved correct. On returning from my walk I struck the same track (i.e. the wobbly wheel and the one shod man) on another road, going ahead of me. I soon overtook them, and found an old invalid lady being driven in a hired bazaar rickshaw.
While following the tracks of the rickshaw, I noticed fresh tracks of two horses coming towards me, followed by a big dog.