266 TEAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



I had much interesting conversation about Kathiawar ; 

 and I am sure, from what I learned afterwards, that 

 his energy and clear intellect wrought not a little good 

 in the province. 



From thence my journey went to Yirumgaum in 

 Giizerat, to which the railway had been extended 

 from Ahmedabad. The first night found me at the 

 small chiefship and town of Luktur, where I had to 

 stop for the night, without any of my attendants, the 

 arrangements for their conveyance not allowing of 

 their remaining there that night. I was prepared for 

 this, and only required some sort of sleeping-place, 

 which was provided for me by the chief pitching a 

 small tent, with a cliarpoi in it, on the shore of a 

 large tank, or small lake, outside the walls of the 

 town. The carriage in which I had come belonged 

 to a chief who was on bad terms with the chief of 

 Luktur, which did not serve as a recommendation for 

 me. Moreover, the Luktur chief was incensed against 

 some of the Englishmen employed in constructing the 

 railway between Virumgaum and "Wudwan, so no at- 

 tention was paid to me. I accepted the situation, 

 however, without finding fault, and soon some of the 

 chief's relatives, and Deushunker, the civil judge of 

 the state, paid me a visit. We had a long friendly 

 conversation, which ended in their apologising for not 

 having made better preparations for receiving me, and 

 in their begging permission to send me out a Muham- 

 madan dinner. On declining the dinner, they begged 



