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exist ; but it is difficult almost impossible to know 

 to what extent they do exist, and how far current 

 stories may be the invention of discontented persons 

 who have been justly deposed from influential posi- 

 tions, and of native employes of the English Agency 

 who seek to serve their own private ends. I shall 

 say nothing on this and similar subjects, on which I 

 do not feel competent to form an opinion. It was 

 evident, however, that considerable efforts were being 

 made in Junaghar to improve the administration of 

 the state, and to fashion it in accordance with modern 

 ideas. In its courts of justice, its schools, and its 

 jail, great reforms had been effected ; and its Kha- 

 brari's struck me as able, well-meaning, and, jxulged 

 by an Indian standard, honest men. 



For instance, I assisted Major Le Geyt in the ex- 

 amination of the principal school ; but in order to 

 appreciate that establishment, we must bear in mind 

 what an exceedingly out-of-the-way place Junaghar 

 is, and how little it is directly affected by the 

 modernising agencies at work in the Presidency 

 towns of India and throughout great parts of the 

 Mofussil. This head-school had over 300 scholars, 

 and 70 of these were learning English ; and it was 

 noticeable that of these 70 only two Avere Muham- 

 madans, though the state is a Muhammadan. state, the 

 rest being almost entirely either Brahmans or Jains. 

 The higher class in English read fluently, and ex- 

 plained easily in English the meaning of the words 



