James Outram : a biography . altogether. If he was not to conquer such contingencies,he did not care to live in the atmosphere to which theybelonged. And he did fight it out, and, strange to say, ill-ness after illness left him none the worse permanently; whilethe result of an unusually varied series of approaches todeaths door was the establishment of a constitution of ironproof against all influences, and proverltial in its marvellouscapacity for endurance of deadly trials; nerves of steel—shoulders and muscles worthy of a six-foot Highlander, liewas given over in cholera more than onc(% and
James Outram : a biography . altogether. If he was not to conquer such contingencies,he did not care to live in the atmosphere to which theybelonged. And he did fight it out, and, strange to say, ill-ness after illness left him none the worse permanently; whilethe result of an unusually varied series of approaches todeaths door was the establishment of a constitution of ironproof against all influences, and proverltial in its marvellouscapacity for endurance of deadly trials; nerves of steel—shoulders and muscles worthy of a six-foot Highlander, liewas given over in cholera more than onc(% and cxperienctdfevers and other diseases or complaints wliicli, humanlyspeaking, would have killed most men : l)ut excitement andwork soon became, and long reniained, his best restorativesand tonics. Of his moving accidents by flood and field and hair-breadth scapes, we shall have to tell hereafter. Ourimmediate business is with the Bhils of Khandesh. ? SKETCH MAP OF THE WESTERN COAST OF INDIA FROM BOMBAY, NORTH TO ^^ **«^A^n*«^ J I 76 V « so 50 SCALt Of [NCL15M Wills Londou: ^uiilJi. Elder & Co. Stan/cr-i/fi €f:op^ J^^ai>* Lnndan, 51 (CHAPTER III. ;lk?^ll anil tliu Bhils - Out rams Bhil Corps. The province of Khandesh, situated to the north-north-eastof the port of Bombay, from which its principal town, Dhulia,is distant 181 miles, became incorporated in British Indianterritory in 1818, after the Peshwas downfall. For a timeit formed part of the district of Ahmadnagar; but wasseparated in 1849. It is now known as a collectorate, ofwhich the greatest length is, from east to west, 175 miles,and breadth, from north to south, 128 miles. Thirty-seven years ago, Captain Douglas Graham describedthe tract as contained between the Satpura hills on thenorth, and that branch of the ghats which passes under thenames of Chandar, Satmula, and Ajanta, to the south. So farthe description holds good at the present day. Let us addthat, beyond the Satpuras, are
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