were all pleased again, and said that they were not prohibited from killing tigers; but that there was no jungle of any kind near Dholpur, and, consequently, no tigers to be found.  The Jats are descendants of the Getae, and were people of very low caste, or rather of no caste at all, among the Hindoos, and they are now trying to raise themselves by abstaining from killing and eating animals.[10] Among Hindoos this is everything; a man of low caste is ‘sab kuchh khata’, sticks at nothing in the way of eating; and a man of high caste is a man who abstains from eating anything but vegetable or farinaceous food; if, at the same time, he abstains from using in his cook-room all woods but one, and has that one washed before he uses it, he is canonized.[11] Having attained to military renown and territorial dominion in the usual way by robbery, the Jats naturally enough seek the distinction of high caste to enable them the better to enjoy their position in society.

It had been stipulated that I should walk to the bottom of the steps to receive the Rana, as is the usage on such occasions, and carpets were accordingly spread thus far.  Here he got out of his chair, and I led him into the large room of the bungalow, which we occupied during our stay, followed by all his and my attendants.  The bungalow had been built by the former Resident at Gwalior, the Honourable R. Cavendish, for his residence during the latter part of the rains, when Gwalior is considered to be unhealthy.  At his departure the Rana purchased this bungalow for the use of European gentlemen and ladies passing through his capital.

In the afternoon, about four o’clock, I went to return his visit in a small palace not yet finished, a pretty piece of miniature fortification, surrounded by what they call their ‘chhaoni’, or cantonments.  The streets are good, and the buildings neat and substantial; but there is nothing to strike or particularly interest the stranger.  The interview passed off without anything remarkable; and I was more than ever pleased with the people by whom this young chief is surrounded.  Indeed, I had much reason to be pleased with the manners of all the people on this side of the Chambal.  They are those of a people well pleased to see English gentlemen among them, and anxious to make themselves useful and agreeable to us.  They know that their chief is indebted to the British Government for all the country he has, and that he would be swallowed up by Sindhia’s greedy army, were not the sevenfold shield of the Honourable Company spread over him.  His establishments, civil and military, like those of the Bundelkhand chiefs, are raised from the peasantry and yeomanry or the country; who all, in consequence, feel an interest in the prosperity and independent respectability of their chief.  On the Gwalior side, the members of all the public establishments know and feel that it is we who interpose and prevent their master from swallowing up all his neighbours, and thereby having