Even in the midst of conversation, the eye closes and the head nods as the exciting cause is dissipating, and the countenance assumes a perfect vacuity of expression. Many a chief has taken his siesta in his chair while on a visit to me: an especial failing of my good friend Raj Kalyan of Sadri, the descendant of the brave Shama, who won “the right hand” of the prince at Haldighat. The lofty turban worn by the Raj, which distinguishes this tribe (the Jhala), was often on the point of tumbling into my lap, as he unconsciously nodded. When it is inconvenient to dissolve the opium, the chief carries it in his pocket, and presents it, as we would a pinch of snuff in Europe. In my subaltern days the chieftain of Senthal, in Jaipur, on paying me a visit, presented me with a piece of opium, which I took and laid on the table. Observing that I did not eat it, he said he should like to try the _Farangi ka amal_, ‘the opiate of the Franks.’ I sent him a bottle of powerful Schiedam, and to his inquiry as to the quantity of the dose, I told him he might take from an eighth to the half, as he desired exhilaration or oblivion. We were to have hunted the next morning; but having no sign of my friend, I was obliged to march without ascertaining the effect of the barter of _aphim_ for the waters of Friesland; though I have no doubt that he found them quite Lethean. [The Rājputs ascribed a divine power to opium owing to the mental exhilaration caused by the drug: hence the taking of it with a chief was a form of solemn communion, and a renewal of the pledge of loyalty (Russell, _Tribes and Castes, Central Provinces_, i. 170, iii. 164, iv. 425). For opium drinking among Rājputs see Malcolm, _Memoir, Central India_, 2nd ed. ii. 146 f.; Forbes, _Rāsmāla_, 557).] Footnote 4.24.29: [The use of the bow has now disappeared except among forest tribes. For its use in Mogul times see Irvine, _Army of the Indian Moghuls_, 91 ff.] Footnote 4.24.30: The author has now before him a letter written by the queen-mother of Bundi desiring his rejoicings on Lalji, ‘the beloved’s,’ _coup d’essai_ on a deer, which he had followed most pertinaciously to the death. On this occasion a court was held, and all the chiefs presented offerings and congratulations. Footnote 4.24.31: [For the Jethi wrestlers in S. India see Thurston, _Tribes and Castes_, ii. 456 ff.] Footnote 4.24.32: [It takes its name from the town where they were made. The blade is slightly curved, one specimen being rather narrower and lighter than the ordinary sword (_talwār_), (Egerton, _Handbook of Indian Arms_, 1880, p. 105; Irvine, _Army of the Indian Moghuls_, 76 f.).] Footnote 4.24.33: