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I then walked the rounds with my jemidar, and having seen that all was right I turned in a little before eleven.

From The Mystery of Cloomber by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

We had left many things with the jemidar from an idea that no carriers could be procured.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace

A jemidar of ours brought in a Hillman today, who says that the tribes are massing in the Terada ravine, ten miles to the north of us, and intend attacking the next convoy.

From The Mystery of Cloomber by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

The jemidar has been very civil to me, and gives me two guides to go on to Adondé, but no carriers can be hired.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace

A jemidar told me that when he was a lad he remembered going, with others, to see a wolf-child which had been netted.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)