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Updated: May 23, 2025
Then a "palki" or palankin arrived, lent by the jargirdar, who had also sent his ten private carriers, and, accompanied by the dafadar, we started for the railway, the nearest point of which was forty miles away, and reached it at five the next morning, having experienced thirteen hours of anxiety, dead weariness, exhausted palankin men, bad and in some places non-existent roads, and, to crown all, one river to ford.
I was told that before the famine of 1898-99 the grove comprised over two thousand trees; but at present there are about half that number. We then received and returned visits with the jargirdar, a Mahratta, and an exceedingly courteous and dignified man.
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