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I am especially indebted to Mr. T. E. Ravensh aw, c.- 8., Combines-of the" Province of Orissa; to Captain W. L. .Samuells, Boundary Commissioner,-Bengdl." and Rows ; to Babfis Rak'haidas Holder and Kalidas Polit,,ax_xd Mr. LAB» Forbes, all Assistants to the Commissioner of ‘Chfitizi Négpfir; to Mr. J. F.‘ K. Hewitt; Settlement Officer, Central Provinces; Captain J. Johnstone, Assistant toSuperin» ' tendent, Kata]: Tributary Mahala; Dr. W’. II. Hayes, Deputy Commissioner of I Singbhfim; Mr. W. Atkinson, of Itzijmaluil; Mr. W. Ritchie, District Superin- tendent of Police, Singbluim; Mr. V. Ball, of the Geological Survey of India; and Dr. J . M. Coates, Superintendent of Jails, Hazéribzigh. All the above gentlemen I have to thank for supplying information whieh'they will find embodied in the following pages. ‘ ‘
