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permitted to escape into a state of outlawry. General 

 Legrand Jacob has related how some of these outlaws 

 once carried off an English officer and kept him a 

 prisoner for months in their retreat among the moun- 

 tains. A year or two before my visit, two English 

 officers of the Federal Sebundi the force kept up at 

 the expense of the principal chiefs to deal with these 

 outlaws were killed by them. Fighting was going 

 on with them when I was on my way to Junaghar, 

 but they made submission before I left that town. 

 In the immediate neighbourhood of Junaghar itself, 

 when I was there, another band of outlaws gave some 

 trouble. At "Wad wan I found that Mr Jardine, the 

 then Assistant Political Resident of the district, kept 

 horses ready for him to start, on a moment's notice, in 

 pursuit of outlaws. On the way between Saila and 

 Miili I was warned that there were Lkairwuttia on. 

 the road, and in the early morning came suddenly on 

 a party of mounted men armed with spears. Sus- 

 piciously enough, at this moment the horse of the 

 *nrar who accompanied me ran off with him, and I 

 had an opportunity of perceiving that in a gdrhi one 

 might be speared with a good deal of ease. However, 

 I had no need to use my revolver, for the leader of 

 the party salaamed to me politely, and passed on ; 

 and though I am by no means sure, it is possible that 

 this was not a party of outlaws, but a patrol guarding 

 the road against them. Even if outlaws, it was ex- 

 tremely unlikely that they would aggravate the diffi- 



