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projected railway which still remains a project, and 

 two young merchants of a leading Bombay house, benfc 

 on a run through Kathiawar for purposes of pleasure 

 combined with an eye to the extension of commerce. 

 I was the only expected guest ; due preparations had 

 been made for me ; and I received every attention from 

 Durga Prasaad Hurridas, the Yahivatdar or collector, 

 and Maharaiiidas Vidzaman Anderji, the Nazir or 

 sheriff of the town ; but the wholly unexpected 

 arrival of the others took Vairawal by surprise, and 

 threw its officials into a state of perplexity and sulki- 

 ness. The Isawab's bungalow, about a mile from the 

 town, was quite roomy enough for us all ; but con- 

 siderable difficulty was experienced by the rest of the 

 party in making their way through the country. The 

 engineer eventually rode into Junaghar 011 an ass ; 

 and the two young merchants, at the end of their first 

 day's ride inland, were kept waiting for two or three 

 hours before any supplies w r ere brought to them, 

 though of course they were quite willing to pay ; and 

 at the end of that period, the Foujdar of the village 

 appeared before them holding up one egg in triumph, 

 alleging it was all the food he had been able to pro- 

 cure. There was surely satire, and not of a very 

 covert kind, in thus offering one egg to two hungry 

 young Sahibs after a ride of thirty miles ; but this 

 did not deter them from carrying out their enterprise, 

 and afterwards they got on better. Probably the 

 officials had directions not to act so as at all to 



