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all hospitable & offered us food & drink invariably.

(23)  After breakfast we packed our baggage & motored over to Jharia, another collery district, the largest of the region.  Here we stopped in a magnificent Bungalow of Bird & Co. built for collery managers.  It cost some 25,000.00.  It is built of brick plastered over white & electric lighted, & furnished with faus.  The rooms are in suites of 4 & open into a central dining room.  At sundown we went to the Jharia Club were we met some mine managers & their wives.

(24)  We called on the Rajah of