A EUX THROUGH KATHIAWAR. 277 



ferred to it with an amusing combination of pride 

 and regret in their countenances. 



In order to make the position of the British 

 Government in Kathiawar intelligible, I must very 

 briefly refer to the history of our connection with 

 that province. The first interference with it on our 

 part was in the year 1807. The Gaikwar of Baroda 

 hold a large portion of Kathiawar under tribute, but 

 the country was in such an unsettled state that he 

 had great difficulty in levying his tribute, and asked 

 our assistance to that end ; while, at the same time, 

 some of the chiefs themselves desired our interference 

 in order that the country might be pacified. Ac- 

 cordingly Colonel Walker, then the Resident at 

 Baroda, entered Kathiawar, and permanent settle- 

 ments were soon made, under British guarantee, as 

 to the tributes due from the various states, as also 

 engagements binding the chiefs to keep the peace to- 

 wards one another and to give up piracy and female 

 infanticide. In addition to this, the occupancy of the 

 Maratha country transferred to the Bombay Govern- 

 ment the tributary and other rights possessed by the 

 Peishwa in Kathiawar. It is astonishing to consider 

 how much was done in Kathiawar in those older times 

 of British rule in India with how much ease and 

 with such slender means. Then, and even so late as 

 in the Agency of Colonel Keatinge, the history of our 

 relations with Kathiawar was, with the exception of 

 one or two interregnums when the Agency was occu- 



