[The succession runs: Bahāwal Khān II. (A.D. 1772-1809); Sādik Muhammad Khān (1809-25); Muhammad Bahāwal Khān III. (1825-52); Sādik Muhammad Khān II. (1853-58); Muhammad Bahāwal Khān IV. (1858-66); Sādik Muhammad Khān III., a minor, installed in 1879.] Footnote 8.2.59: This memorandum was written, I think, in 1811 or 1812. Footnote 8.2.60: My friend Dr. Joseph Duncan (attached to the Residency when I was Political Agent at Udaipur) was attacked by the _narua_ in a very aggravated form. It fixed itself in the ankle-joint, and being broken in the attempt to extricate it, was attended by all the evil results I have described, ending in lameness, and generally impaired health, which obliged him to visit the Cape for recovery, where I saw him on my way home eighteen months after, but he had even then not altogether recovered from the lameness. [Guinea-worm (Dracontiasis), a disease due to the _Filaria medinensis_ or _Dracunculus_, known in Persia as rīshtah, infests the Persian Gulf and many parts of India. See Curzon, _Persia_, ii. 234; Fryer, _New Account of East India and Persia_, ed. 1912, i. 175; Sleeman, _Rambles_, 76; _Asiatic Researches_, vi. 58 ff.; _EB_, 11th ed. xix. 361. The disease from which Job suffered (Job ii. 7) is generally believed to be elephantiasis (A. B. Davidson, _The Book of Job_, 13).] Footnote 8.2.61: [Since this was written Rājputāna has suffered from terrible famines in 1868-69, 1877-78, 1891-92, and 1899-1900, besides several seasons of scarcity.] Footnote 8.2.62: [These camel corps have been placed at the service of the Indian Government, and have done excellent service in several recent campaigns.] Footnote 8.2.63: [The wild ass (_Equus hemionus_) seems to have almost entirely disappeared in Jaisalmer. It is seldom seen in Mārwār, and no specimen has appeared in Bīkaner for many years (Erskine iii. A. 7, 50, 311; Blanford, _Mammalia of India_, 470 f.). Herodotus (vii. 86) says that the Indian chariots in the army of Xerxes were drawn by horses or wild asses.] Footnote 8.2.64: [Nīlgāē, _Boselaphus tragocamelus_, is not a deer, but belongs to the order Bovidae (Blanford, 517 ff.).] Footnote 8.2.65: [The fruits or small red berries of the _pilu_ (_Salvadora persica_) have a strong aromatic smell and a pungent taste, like mustard or garden cress, while the shoots and leaves are eaten as a salad (Watt, _Econ. Dict._ vi. Part ii. 449; Burnes, _Travels into Bokhara_, iii. 122).] Footnote 8.2.66: