WALA NAMORTS EPITAPH " Khan Saheb " and presented on November 10, A.D. 1893, at Rajkot with a sword of honour and a money reward for his gallantry on the occasion. A bardic eulogium on the acts and death of Wala Namori praises equally the outlaw and his vanquisher, and an excellent translation of the poem by Mr. Kincaid in " The Outlaws of Kathia- wad " runs as follows : Though the hatred of kings is unsleeping, Yet Morvi and Malia were one ; Though they hated they joined for the moment Till the days of Namori were done. His head never bowed to the mighty 9 As the wind, so his spirit was free, And he roamed from the Rann to the Bardas, And he robbed from Wadhwan to the sea. Had Mor and Namori united, Then the earth had been theirs for a prey. But the love of the lowly lasts always, And the love of the great for a day. Fate's orders, O Wala Namori, Are pitiless, ever the same, Or as stands out some fort on the Bhadar, So had towered thy castle of fame. Earth's kings must have kings for their rivals. So lion-souled Gordon arose. Had Gordon not been, then Namori Had ruled from the line to the floes. From heaven the Apsaras hastened To wed with the brave who should fall. Young Gordon died first, so they bore him To wed with the fairest of alL When two lions lie prone in death grapple Their pride and their valour are one, Thus Gordon's fame sprang from Namori And Namori's from Gordon was won. Early in A.D. 1892 H.H. Sir Bahadur Khanji of Juna- gadh died, without however leaving an heir, and without having exercised the privilege accorded him in common with other chiefs by Government of being permitted to 249