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of the elephant, I continued smoking quietly in my 

 chair, notwithstanding the entreaties addressed to me 

 from the tower, especially by my Portuguese cook, 

 who cried, half pathetically half indignantly, " S'pose 

 that must hatti (mad elephant) come, Sahib not can 

 eat that roast mutton." Before getting quite close to 

 us, however, the elephant halted in some jungle, and 

 its keeper, stealing behind it, clapped a half-opened 

 iron ring round one of its hind ankles, and this not 

 only closed with a spring, but had sharp spikes on 

 its inside surface, which checked the huge animal's 

 further progress, and made it submit to its mahout. 

 To do justice to the cook, he only mounted the wall 

 connected with the gateway tower, and returned to 

 his beloved mutton before any one else ventured 

 down. 



This state of Ji'maghar, at the capital of which I 

 spent a fortnight, is the largest and most important 

 of the states of Kathiawar, excepting, perhaps, 

 Bhauntigar. It is a Muhammaclun state ; and its 

 prince, the Xawab, is a Muhammadan, and so are 

 one or two of his principal advisers, but its affairs are 

 administered chiefly by Xagar Brahmans. The city 

 is renowned as a most ancient place, even in a country 

 so abundant in ancient places, and is believed to have 

 been the capital of princes of the Yadu race, the 

 Yadevas of the Mahabharata, According to the 

 ' Mirat - i - Secundri," the Chiirasma dynasty had 

 ruled in it, as over all Soruth, for nineteen centuries 



