His Highness has erected a little kiosk, in which he can sit sheltered from the sun while the sport goes on.  He also has a lot of leopards, panthers and cheetahs (Hindu wildcats), trained like dogs for hunting purposes, and are said to be as useful and intelligent as Gordon setters.  He frequently takes a party of friends into the jungle for tiger shooting, and uses these tame beasts to scare up the game.

He is fond of horses and has 300 breeding mares and stallions kept in long stables opening upon the paddock in which they are trained.  Each horse has a coolie to look after it, for no coolie could possibly attend to more than one.  The man has nothing else to do.  He sleeps on the straw in the stall of the animal, and seldom leaves it for a moment from the time he is assigned to the duty until his services are no longer required.  The maharaja has spent a great deal of money and taken a great deal of pains to improve the stock of his subjects, both horses and cattle.  He has an experimental farm for encouraging agriculture and teaching the people, and a horticultural garden of seventy acres, with a menagerie, in which are a lot of beautiful tigers captured by his own men upon his own estates within twelve miles of town.  They catch a good many tigers alive, and one of his amiable habits is to present them to his friends and people whom he desires to honor.

In the center of the horticultural garden stands one of the noblest modern buildings in India, a museum which the maharaja established several years ago for the permanent exhibition of the arts and industries of his people, who are very highly skilled in metal and loom work of all kinds, in sculpture, enameling, in making jewelry of gold and silver, and varieties of glass work.  At great expense he has assembled samples of similar work from other countries in order that his subjects may have the benefit of comparing it with their own, and in connection with the museum has established a school of art and industry.  This at present has between five and six hundred students receiving instruction in the arts and industries in which the people of Jeypore have always excelled.  The museum is called Albert Hall, in honor of the King of England, and the park is christened in memory of the late Earl of Mayo, who, while Viceroy of India, became an intimate friend and revered adviser of the father of the maharaja.  An up-to-date hospital with a hundred beds is named Mayo Hospital.

The Maharaja’s College is another institution which has been established by this public-spirited and progressive Hindu, who has done more for the education of his people than any other native prince.  There are now about 1,000 students, with a faculty of eighty-two professors, including fifteen Englishmen and twelve Persians.  The college is affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and has the best reputation of any institution of learning among the native states.  But even higher testimony to the liberality and progressive