CHAPTER XXXVI. 



In travelling through Guzerat I occasionally mentioned the lofty 

 mountain of Powa-Ghur, and the majestic scenery in its vicinity, 

 as forming one of the grandest features in that province, especially 

 when seen from the ramparts of Dhuboy. I was always desirous 

 of exploring those romantic regions, the falls of the Nerbudda, 

 and some other interesting spots in the north-east parts of Gu- 

 zerat. With the conveniences for travelling in England this might 

 have been easily accomplished ; but it is far otherwise in Hindos- 

 tan, where a journey of only fifty miles requires much considera- 

 tion and arrangement. 



My public duties as a member of council at Baroche, and 

 collector of the revenues at Dhuboy, situations of responsibility 

 and anxiety, kept me fully employed ; and being thus deprived of 

 an opportunity to accomplish my wishes, I endeavoured to gain 

 every intelligence of those districts from the yogees, senassees, 

 and other travelling mendicants, who frequented Dhuboy. They 

 made some valuable communications, not indeed alwa\ ? s such as I 

 could depend upon; for these wandering devotees, (who, except 

 the Vanjarras with their bullock caravans, are almost the only 

 travellers in Hindostan), generally exaggerate in their descriptions, 



