<P> Carrying the mail was dangerous work: </P> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> With the exception of such parts as may be infested by tigers, the post seldom or never fails of arriving within an hour of its appointed time, except, as has been observed, when the waters are out . In this case, many circuitous roads must be followed, whereby the way is considerably lengthened . Taking the average, a hundred miles per day may be run over by the dawk, or post, in fair weather . Each mail - bag is conveyed by an hurkaru (or runner) who is attended by one or two doogy - wallahs, or drummers, who keep up a kind of long - roll, as they pass any suspicious place . </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> With the exception of such parts as may be infested by tigers, the post seldom or never fails of arriving within an hour of its appointed time, except, as has been observed, when the waters are out . In this case, many circuitous roads must be followed, whereby the way is considerably lengthened . Taking the average, a hundred miles per day may be run over by the dawk, or post, in fair weather . Each mail - bag is conveyed by an hurkaru (or runner) who is attended by one or two doogy - wallahs, or drummers, who keep up a kind of long - roll, as they pass any suspicious place . </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> <Dl> <Dd> With the exception of such parts as may be infested by tigers, the post seldom or never fails of arriving within an hour of its appointed time, except, as has been observed, when the waters are out . In this case, many circuitous roads must be followed, whereby the way is considerably lengthened . Taking the average, a hundred miles per day may be run over by the dawk, or post, in fair weather . Each mail - bag is conveyed by an hurkaru (or runner) who is attended by one or two doogy - wallahs, or drummers, who keep up a kind of long - roll, as they pass any suspicious place . </Dd> </Dl>

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