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not aware of the really dangerous state of the country. My work requiring residence for works in the remoter districts & settlements among the hills lays the matter in a different light & the continual warnings that are given me by the Prefects wherever we go of the danger a single person is in when going about in the country shows the true state of affairs. The authorities do all in their power to insure safety but it is difficult to curb the spirit of rapine that decades of bandit life has inculcated in the half savage inhabitants of indian villages in wild hills & mts. to whom human life would not weigh for a moment against the value of a day's drunken