1 286 A JOURNEY IN INDIA, TIBET,
2 years ago every thing was to be done with them; and.
3 since six or seven years, every thing is done already.
4 A single man has worked that wonderful miracle of
5 civilisation ; Major Henry Hall, the son-in-law of
6 Colonel Fagan, of whom I have written to you at Delhi.
7 As I know it will be gratifying to your feelings ‘and
8 to your opinions on the subject, I shall add, my dear
9 friend, that Major Hall has accomplished this admir-
10 able social experiment without taking a single life.
11 The very worst characters of Mhairwarrah, le se-
12 cured them, confined them, or put them in irons at
13 work on the roads. Those who had lived long by the
14 sword without becoming notorious for wanton cruelty,
15 he made thent soldiers; they became in that capacity
16 the keepers of their former associates, and often of
17 their chiefs; and the test of the population was gained |
18 to the plough. Female infanticide was a prevalent
19 practice with the Mhairs, and generally throughout Raj-
20 pootanah ; and now female casualties amongst infants
21 exceed not male casualties; a proof that the bloody
22 practice has been abandoned, and scarcely has a man
23 been punished for it. Major Hall did not punish the
24 offenders, he removed the cause of the crime, and made
25 the crime useless, even injurious to the offender; and
26 it is never more committed.
27 Major Hall has shown to me, on the field, the corps
28 which*he has raised from amongst those former savages,
29 and I have seen none in the Indian arniy in a higher
30 state of discipline. He was justly proud of his good