16. These leases now carry with them a right of ownership, involving the power of alienation, subject to the lien of the land revenue as a first charge. Conversely, the modern codes lay down the principle that the revenue settlement must be made with the proprietor. The author's rule of agricultural succession by primogeniture in the Nerbudda territories has survived only in certain districts (see _post_, Chapter 47). The land-revenue law and the law concerning the relations between landlords and tenants have now been more or less successfully codified in each province. Mr. B. H. Baden-Powell's encyclopaedic work _The Land Systems of British India_ (3 volumes: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1892) gives very full information concerning Indian tenures as now existing, and the law applicable to them at the date of publication. CHAPTER 11 Witchcraft. On leaving Jabêrâ,[1] I saw an old acquaintance from the eastern part of the Jubbulpore district, Kehrî Singh. 'I understand, Kehrî Singh', said I, 'that certain men among the Gonds of the jungle, towards the source of the Nerbudda, eat human flesh. Is it so?' 'No, sir; the men never eat people, but the Gond women do.' 'Where?' 'Everywhere, sir; there is not a parish, nay, a village, among the Gonds, in which you will not find one or more such women.' 'And how do they eat people?' 'They eat their livers, sir.' 'Oh, I understand; you mean witches?' 'Of course! Who ever heard of other people eating human beings?' 'And you really still think, in spite of all that we have done and said, that there are such things as witches?' 'Of course we do--do not we find instances of it every day? European gentlemen are too apt to believe that things like this are not to be found here, because they are not to be found in their own country. Major Wardlow, when in charge of the Seonî district, denied the existence of witchcraft for a long time, but he was at last convinced.' 'How?'