THE KHOND HIGHLANDS. 247 



Colonel Campbell was vested with 

 special powers for dealing with the 

 crime of human sacrifice, and furnished 

 with an establishment of elephants 

 and tents which enabled him to traverse 

 every part of the Khond hills and to 

 pass some months of every year in 

 this way, visiting the strongholds of 

 the superstition, rescuing intended vic- 

 tims, dispersing assemblages met for 

 the purpose of human sacrifice, and 

 endeavouring to engage the Khonds 

 everywhere to substitute buffaloes for 

 human victims. Steps were at the 

 same time taken for putting an end 

 to kidnapping, and so cutting ofE the 

 supply of victims. 



The special- agency under Colonel 

 Campbell, and subsequently under Cap- 



