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and there among the Khonds, with an 

 organized system of patrol, and cases of 

 the exposure of female infants were 

 occasionally brought to light and pun- 

 ished with imprisonment or transpor- 

 tation. I found, however, that nothing 

 but a severe and signal example would 

 put an end to this practice, and on the 

 occurrence of a flagrant case of immo- 

 lation the perpetrator was hanged at the 

 scene of the crime, after which cases 

 ceased to be reported. 



I was absent from Ganjam during the 

 year 1865, and on my return, in Janu- 

 ary, 1866, the first news which met me 

 as the steamer anchored was, " There is 

 a ' row ' in the Khond Hills, and a threat- 

 ening of famine in Ganjam." 



Both items of this unpleasant an- 



