The cases of atrocious murders and robberies which come before me every day, and are acknowledged by the local authorities, and neighbours of the sufferers, to have taken place, are frightful.

Such sufferings, for which no redress is to be found, would soon desolate any part of India less favoured by nature.
In the valley of the Nerbudda, for instance, such sufferings would render a district desolate for ages.

The people, driven off from an estate, go and settle in another better governed.

The grass grows rankly from the richness of the soil, and the humidity of the air, and becomes filled with deer and other animals, that are food for beasts of prey.

Tigers, leopards, wolves, wild dogs, &c.