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examination of antiquities with a round of gaieties ; 

 of passing from the society of danciug-girls to that 

 of the statues of the twenty-four Tirthaukaras or holy 

 saints of the Jain religion ; of exchanging the pres- 

 ence of princes for that of ashy devotees ; and, above 

 all, of obtaining admission to the Amijhara or Per- 

 spiring Statue of the holy mountain Girnar, and of 

 sleeping at the foot of Kalika, the Dread Mother, 

 among the Aghoras, or carrion-eating devotees, by 

 which it is invested. 



Kathiawar can be reached from the Presidency 

 town by the railway which runs through the Xorth- 

 ern Koncan and Giizerat to Ahmedabad, and by the 

 extensive line from that place to Vi'rumgaum ; but 

 as easy and rapid a way is by the well-appointed 

 steamboats of the British India Steam Navigation 

 Company, which run from Bombay to Karachi in 

 Sind, touching at Yairawal, the chief port of Juna- 

 ghar, and at various other places, by the way. That 

 preliminary part of the journey was very easy. It 

 was only after being turned out of the railway at 

 Virumgaum, or landed at Vairawal, that the incau- 

 tious traveller who had not made sufficient prepara- 

 tions for the journey found himself in a difficulty. 

 Kathiawar, I need scarcely say, was not, and is not 

 to-day, a land of hotels, or drawing-room cars, or 

 public conveyances of almost any kind. It was not 

 a land where private conveyances, or even the means 

 of subsistence, could be had in many parts except as 



