256 GANJAM. 



After I took charge of the agency, 

 intervention in these quarrels, and the 

 suppression of female infanticide, which 

 was still practised in some of the Khond 

 communities, became the chief objects in 

 view. The irregulars who had served 

 under the former special agent were, for 

 the most part, absorbed into the con- 

 stabulary, which was at that time about 

 being organized by the present Sir W. 

 Robinson, then Inspector - General of 

 Police ; they retained their fire-arms, 

 and bodies of them accompanied me 

 when I visited the hills, under the com- 

 mand of an officer (Captain, now Major 

 Lys) admirably qualified by temper and 

 judgment for the duty of dealing with 



savages. 



We located a few police-stations here 



