. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . f. In nine such cases out of ten I venture to affirm thatthe first thoughts of the relatives would be to hush thematter up if possible. The brave old father and the uncle,however, never hesitated for a moment; they boundRamajee Rao hand and foot; the old uncle called twoMhars and set off then and there for a ten miles trudgeto report the occurrence at the nearest police post, whilethe old father sat him down and kept guard over his sontill the police came and took charge of him 1 I could not b
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . f. In nine such cases out of ten I venture to affirm thatthe first thoughts of the relatives would be to hush thematter up if possible. The brave old father and the uncle,however, never hesitated for a moment; they boundRamajee Rao hand and foot; the old uncle called twoMhars and set off then and there for a ten miles trudgeto report the occurrence at the nearest police post, whilethe old father sat him down and kept guard over his sontill the police came and took charge of him 1 I could not bring myself to hear the trial, but Mr. ClaudeErskine, the Judge who tried it, and was deeply affected,afterwards told me that he never witnessed anything likethe fortitude with which those two grand old fellows gave theirevidence. A death sentence was passed of course, but theSudder Court mercifully commuted it to transportation for life. The incident will serve to show the kind of stuff ofwhich these fine old Mahrattas are made. I much fearthat what with Revenue Survey Settlements, Forest Demar-. o mO< w< <HH PS ww o^<- in SIWAJEES MAWULLEES CIVILISED. 153 cations, Civil Procedure Codes, Khotee and Ryots ProtectionAssociations, to say nothing of vakils, liquor shops, andmoneylenders, the Arcadian state, which I have attemptedto depict has long since disappeared. THE MAHRATTAS OF THE GHAUT—MAHTA AND THEMAWULS— GHATTEES . These are undoubtedly the descendants of Siwajees redoubt-able Mawullees—of medium height, well-knit powerful frames,they are capable of incredible and sustained exertion. Formany years they have thrown away the sword and devotedthemselves to the more peaceful pursuits of worked splendidly in large gangs on the tunnels, rockcuttings, and viaducts on the Bhore Ghaut Railway they migrated almost in a body to Bombay to thereclamation and dock works. It was marvellous to seewith what ease and skill they transported
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