[3]. [In 1911 respectively 125 and 279 per mille.]
[4]. The district of Sanchor is almost entirely Brahman, forming a distinct tribe, called the Sanchora Brahmans.
[5]. [At present the horses of Mallāni are most esteemed. By the “Jungle,” the Lākhi Jangal is meant.]
[6]. [Gawār, the horse bean, Dolichus biflorus.]
[7]. [In Nāgor district, N.W. of Jodhpur city.]
[8]. [This variety is grown without irrigation (Erskine iii. A. 103).]
[9]. [The varieties of soil now recognized are: matiyāli, clayey loam; bhūri, brown-coloured, and with less clay than matiyāli; retla, fine sand without clay; magra or tharra, on the slopes of hills, hard and containing pebbles (ibid. iii. A. 99).]
[10]. [Makrāna is 12 miles W. of Sāmbhar Lake. For its marbles see Sleeman, Rambles, 318; Hervey, Some Records of Crime, i. 100. The best marbles in Rājputāna are found at Makrāna, Tonkra in Kishangarh, Kharwar in Ajmer, and Raiālu in Jaipur; see Watt, Comm. Prod. 715.]
[11]. There is nothing which so much employs the assessors of justice, in those tribunals of arbitration, the Panchayats, as the adjudication of questions of property. The highest compliment ever paid to the Author was by the litigants of property amounting to half a million sterling, which had been going the rounds of various Panchayats and appeals to native princes, alike unsatisfactory in their results. They agreed to admit as final the decision of a court of his nomination. It was not without hesitation I accepted the mediation propounded through the British superintendent of Ajmer (Mr. Wilder); but knowing two men, whose integrity as well as powers of investigation were above all encomium, I could not refuse. One of these had given a striking instance of independence in support of the award his penetration had led him to pronounce, and which award being set aside on appeal, through favouritism, he abjured every future call as an arbitrator. He was not a wealthy man, but such was the homage paid to his integrity and talents, that the greatest despot in India found it politic to reassemble the court, have the case reconsidered, and permit justice to take its course. In like manner, his demand was, that, before he agreed to devote his time to unravelling all the intricacies of the case, both litigants should sign a muchalka, or ‘bond,’ to abide by the award. I have no recollection how it terminated.
[12]. [Cumin, Cuminum cyminum (Watt, Comm. Prod. 442).]