COMBINED ACTION AGAINST KATHIS which ensued he was shot. For this reason the Kathis will not to this day drink water in Lathi territory. On hearing the news of the death of his son, Hada Khuman planned an attack on Wanda, a village in the Kundla district. In A.D. 1821 the Kathis raided Wanda, but while endeavouring to reach the Gir Forest with their plunder, they were overtaken near Bedan by a force from Kundla under the command of Kala Bhati, and being defeated in the fight which ensued, abandoned their booty and sought refuge in flight. But Mansur Khuman, son of Jogidas Khuman, was killed by a musket-ball, and his brother Lakha was wounded, and smarting at their reverse and losses, they returned to their depredations in Bhavnagar territory with greater obstinacy and fury than before. The country became so disturbed, that in A.D. 1822 the Political Agent, Captain Barnewall, marched to Amreli with a force and called upon Wajesinhji Gohel and all other neighbouring chiefs to meet him. He earnestly asked for the co-operation of all in hunting out and exterminating the outlaws—known generally as " Baharwatia," from the two words Bahar, outside, and wat, a road, indicating action of an improper nature —and offered all assistance in his power to enable them to preserve peace and punish the offenders. Wajesinhji thereupon proceeded to Kundla, to make plans from there as to the line of action to be taken by him for rounding up the aggressors, and while there he discovered that the Khumans were being aided and abetted by the Wala Kathis of Chital and Jetpur. On learning this fact, he communicated it to Captain Barne- wall, who called the Wala leaders to his presence and demanded to know the truth of the accusation. They strenuously denied that they were at all concerned in the raids of the Khumans, but were forced to give security against aiding them in the future. Scarcely had these measures been undertaken, when 199