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sanction to every feasible scheme of 

 relief. The Ganjatn and Chilka canal 

 and other public works were under- 

 taken, the poorest classes were fed at 

 great relief houses, the weavers had a 

 special contract given them for tent 

 cloth for the commissariat, and the 

 ryots, who in their poverty still shrank 

 from attending the public food kitchens, 

 were relieved by other special arrange- 

 ments, and grants of seed grain were 

 made to them. 



When, in the course of the following 

 year, my nine years' service in Ganjam 

 came to an end, and I had to leave 

 scenes and people for which I felt a 

 warm regard, the period of suffering 

 had ended, and prosperity had returned 

 to the district. 



