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a dread of any repetition of the same, certain it is that, 

 shortly after receiving it, the horses made a more 

 desperate and prolonged effort than before, and pulled 

 the carriage out of the sand-hole. I was glad to be 

 able to save these spirited and sensitive little creatures 

 the labour of going all the way to Yirumgaum. Be- 

 fore reaching that place I got my baggage and myself 

 transferred to a trolly on the railway in course of 

 construction to "Wudwan, and so glided smoothly 

 along to that town, in company with a large strong 

 Englishman engaged on the railway, whose name I 

 have forgotten, but who was a superior man of his 

 class, and had devoted not a little attention to the 

 more interesting features of the country in which he 

 Avas temporarily located. 



At Virumgaum I came to the end of my Kathiawar 

 journey. The weather was becoming uncomfortably 

 hot ; I had gone through a good deal of hard rough- 

 ing, especially on Gi'rnar, which yet remains to be 

 described ; and I was not sorry to settle down for 

 a couple of days' repose in the most splendid travel- 

 lers' bungalow it has been my fortune to meet with 

 in India. It had spacious apartments round a central 

 hall, dressing-rooms, bath-rooms, with baths of clear 

 water, large mirrors, and commodious easy- chairs. 

 This pleasing place, so much superior to the usual 

 style of travellers' bungalow to be met with in India, 

 had been built at the expense of the Virumgaum 

 municipality; and the inhabitants of the town re- 



