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his brethren in office he draws on his own knowledge, 

 and sometimes on his imagination. 



The jail in Jiinaghar was quite a model affair ; but 

 I have noticed of late years that jails in India usually 

 are, whether in native states or in British territory. 

 A jail is a very easy thing to keep in a nice showy 

 condition ; and as visitors almost always look at it, 

 even the worst prince likes to have his prison in that 

 condition. The late Guikwar of Baroda had a beau- 

 tiful jail, and I saw there the ex-prime-minister of 

 that state, Bhau Sindiah ; but a few weeks after- 

 wards Bhau Sindiah died under rather suspicious cir- 

 cumstances, and, according to popular rumour, he was 

 pressed to death in a sikunja, or contracting wheel. 

 A much better indication of the progress of modern 

 civilisation in Jiimighar was the Alfred Hospital, 

 which had been founded in commemoration of the 

 Duke of Edinburgh's visit to India, and was relieving 

 hundreds of patients, under the superintendence of 

 Anundass Morji, a licentiate of the Bombay Medical 

 College. The splendid specimens of Botltriocephalm 

 latu#, Tienia sol him, and Filaria medinensis which he 

 had extracted from his patients were particularly 

 striking, and showed that tape and guinea worms 

 flourish in Jiinaghar. I made some interesting notes 

 regarding this hospital, but unfortunately (or fortu- 

 nately) for my readers I cannot lay my hands npon 

 them. A similar fate has overtaken other Jiinaghar 

 statistics which I collected ; but probably my general 



