258 GANJAM. 



nouncement were verified, and on reach- 

 ing Ganjam I found my locum tenens, 

 Mr. Thornhill, and the Inspector-General 

 of Police in Goomsur, on the borders 

 of the Khond Hills, with several junior 

 officers. 



Mr. (now Sir W.) Robinson and 

 his lieutenants had just returned from 

 the upper country, where our police 

 had been in hostile collision with the 

 Kootiya Khonds, in the western part of 

 the country, a wilder and bolder tribe 

 than their kinsmen on the borders of 

 Goomsur. As our police posts were 

 advanced, and the enforcement of a 

 general control attempted, resentment 

 and resistance were naturally aroused, 

 and there followed encounters which did 

 not pass off without bloodshed. The 



