ked to it as if it had been a human being. I thought it was an
animal for show, and I was about to give them something, when they
told me that they were servants of the Maharaja, and were training
the leopard to bear the sight and society of man. 'It had', they
said, 'been caught about three months ago in the jungles, where it
could never bear the sight and society of man, or of any animal that
it could not prey upon; and must be kept upon the most frequented
road till quite tamed. Leopards taken when very young would', they
said, 'do very well as pets, but never answered for hunting; a good
leopard for hunting must, before taken, be allowed to be a season or
two providing for himself, and living upon the deer he takes in the
jungles and plains.'

Notes:

1. For the characteristics of the Marathas and Pindharis, see _ante_,
Chapter 21, note 2.

2. _Ante_, Chapter 26, note 8, and Chapter 32, note 9.

3. _Ante_, Chapter 17, note 6.

4. A small principality, about seventy miles equidistant from Agra,
Gwalior, Mathura, Alwar, Jaipur, and Tonk. The attack on Karauli
occurred in 1813. Full details are given in the author's _Report on
Budhuk alias Bagree Decoits_, pp. 99-104.

5. Four hundred thousand rupees.

6. _Ante_, Chapter 33, note 15.

7. Seven hundred thousand rupees.

8. Raghugarh is now a mediatized chiefship in the Central India
Agency, controlled by the Resident at Gwalior. Bajranggarh, a
stronghold eleven miles south of Guna (Goonah), and about 140 miles
distant from Gwalior, is in the Raghugarh territory.

9. Three hundred thousand and two hundred thousand rupees,
respectively. Bahadurgarh is now included in the Isagarh district of
the Gwalior State.

10. I cannot find any mention of Lopar, if the name is correctly
printed. Garha Kota seems to be a slip of the pen for Garha. Garha
Kota is in British territory, in the Sagar District, C. P. But Garha
is a petty state, formerly included in the Raghugarh State. The town
of Garha is on the eastern slope of the Malwa plateau in 25 deg. 2' N.
and 78 deg. 3' E. (_I.G._, 1908, s.v.).

11. On the coronation or installation of every new prince of the
house of Sindhia, orders are given to plunder a few shops in the town
as a part of the ceremony, and this they call or consider 'taking the
auspices'. Compensation is _supposed_ to be made to the proprietors,
but rarely is made. I believe the same auspices are taken at the
installation of a new prince of ever