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ing to the official correspondence ; on the other the hardships 
of long excursions under the most uncomfortable circumstances 
rendered still more uncomfortable by the necessity of making 
haste in order to save the most possible time, and the conse- 
difficulties, as far as the exploration is concerned, have been 
greatly increased by the particular conditions prevailing in the 
EpiroriaAL Work. 
The collection of the commemorative songs referring to 
the Rulers of Bikaner, which, as mentioned in the last “ Pro- 
has been detained in the hope that some new manuscript 
containing old songs might yet come to light in consequence of 
the search which is being made in the district. 
he two poems on rava JétaSi (JétaSi ra Chanda) also 
noticed in the last ‘“‘ Progress Report,’ have been examin 
and studied, and one of them, the shorter one which is, per- 
haps, the more valuable and the better preserved of the two 
and the name of whose author is known, has been selected 
for publication. In this case, too, the sending to Press of the 
poem has been deferred, to see if any other manuscript comes 
to light, in the meanwhile, to help to elucidate such passages 
as are not sufficiently clear in the two manuscripts that are so 
far available. 
A new work which was taken into hand and also brought 
and his memory is much cherished in the Bikaneri tradition, 
1 Journ. As, Soc. of Be., vol. xiii (N.S.), 1917, pp. 195-252. 
