Crossword-Solution: HACKERY 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

The zemindar to whom the Warreners' guide conducted them, after crossing the Ganges, received them kindly, and told them that the safest way would be for them to go on in a hackery, or native cart, and placed one at once at their disposal, with a trusty man as a driver, and another to accompany them in the hackery.

Its produce varies according to the size of the luggie, the fertility of the soil, and accidents of season; eight to ten hackery loads, however, is generally considered a good average return.

The Oude Government formerly allowed for each four-bullock hackery thirty rupees a-month, from which _two rupees and half_ were deducted for the perquisites of office.

Among the miscellaneous concourse appears the head-servant, or _khansamah_, mounted generally on some steed discarded by his master, while his inferiors either walk on foot, or get a lift in a hackery, or on the back of a camel; but all trudge along with cheerfulness, and alacrity.

Another opportunity is to travel two days by post-cart to a village one never heard of, transferring there to a bullock hackery that may take him through jungle roads to the cadjan metropolis--provided he is able to give instructions in Tamil, or a college-bred coolie can be found who knows English.