mountaineer on this very spot; and these humble cenotaphs, covering the ashes of their kin, recalled events not likely to be repeated in these halcyon days, when the names of Bhil and Mer cease to be the synonyms of plunderer. As there may be no place more appropriate for a sketch of the mountaineers, the reader may transport himself to the glen of Kumbhalmer, and listen to the history of one of the aboriginal tribes of Rajasthan [680]. [Illustration: KOLI AND BHIL.] [Illustration: CHĀRAN OR BARD.] (The Foresters of Rājputana.) _To face page 788._ ----- Footnote 4.25.1: The amphitheatre, or circle. [The valley of Udaipur.] Footnote 4.25.2: _Sabun_, in the lingua franca of India, signifies ‘soap.’ [The soap-nut tree (_sapindus mukorossi_), the fruit of which is used for washing clothes and the hair (Watt, _Comm. Prod._ 979).] Footnote 4.25.3: [Raised by James Skinner (1778-1841), known as “The Yellow Boys,” in 1823; 1st Irregular Cavalry (Skinner’s Horse), 1840; 1st Bengal Cavalry, 1861 (F. G. Cardew, _Sketch of the Services of the Bengal Native Army to the Year 1895_).] Footnote 4.25.4: [_Calligonum polygonoides_, a shrub on which camels live for the greater part of the year.] Footnote 4.25.5: _Bhanej_, or ‘nephew,’ a title of courtesy enjoyed by every chieftain who marries a daughter or immediate kinswoman of the Rana’s house. [When Bhīm Singh succeeded in 1793, his first act was to drive his uncle, Zālim Singh, the son of a Mewār princess, from Jodhpur. He took refuge in Udaipur, and passed the rest of his days in literary pursuits. He was a man of charm and ability, a gallant soldier, no mean poet. He died in the prime of life in British Merwāra in 1799 (Erskine iii. A. 70).] Footnote 4.25.6: My guide or instructor, Yati Gyanchandra, a priest of the Jain sect, who had been with me ten years. To him I owe much, for he entered into all my antiquarian pursuits with zeal. Footnote 4.25.7: [A chiefship in Central India under the Bhopāl Agency. In 1819 Subhāg Singh becoming imbecile was replaced by his son Chain Singh, after whose death in 1824 he was restored (_IGI_, xviii. 353).] Footnote 4.25.8: [As usual, Jainism and Buddhism are confounded.] Footnote 4.25.9: One of the four Agnikulas. [The Umats were not a distinguished tribe until Achal Singh, Dīwān of Narsinghgarh, married his son to a near relation of the Mahārāna of Udaipur, and since this alliance many of the principal Mālwa families eat with the Rājas of Umatwāra (Malcolm, _Memoir of Central India_, 2nd ed. ii. 130 f.). For a full and slightly different account see _IGI_, xviii. 382 ff.] Footnote 4.25.10: [Chain Singh quarrelled with the Political Agent, attacked the British forces at Sehore, and was killed in the battle in 1824 (_IGI_, xviii. 383).] Footnote 4.25.11: Sindhia’s flag is a snake _argent_ on an _orange_ field. Footnote 4.25.12: