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was in a particularly disadvantageous position for 

 making friends with the Kathi chiefs, because they 

 had a long-standing feud with the state of Jiinaghar, 

 of which I had heen a favoured guest, and in the 

 carriages of which I had arrived at Jaitpore. 



The story is a curious one, and may well serve to 

 illustrate the relationships of the states of Ivathia- 

 war, for it is only one of a thousand on which the 

 present state of the peninsula turns, so far as that is 

 a matter of finance and litigation. Soon after the 

 British Government established itself in Kathiawar, 

 and when it was making arrangements for the pacifi- 

 cation of the country, these chiefs gave such refuge 

 and assistance to some notorious outlaws that the 

 British Government occupied their fort, and held 

 their persons and possessions as responsible. This 

 difficulty they got over by the J^awab of Junaghar 

 becoming responsible for their good conduct, and he 

 agreed to do so on the condition of the Kathis allow- 

 ing him to establish a force of his own in their terri- 

 tory, and of their agreeing to pay him a yearly sum 

 for the expense which this measure involved, and for 

 the responsibility which he incurred in becoming 

 security for them. The force thus established (judi- 

 cially speaking) in Jaitpore was a small number of 

 horse and foot, but it never was actually established 

 there ; and though the transaction commenced in the 

 year 1822, the force never has been in Jaitpore, but 

 (legally speaking) it always has been supposed to 



