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ment of hospitality in the jungle. I feel the greatest satisfaction in rendering justice to a man who has done justice to his countrymen, justice to his employers, and justice to the railway cause.”

After this Jamshedji successfully contracted for several other works on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. These undertakings were very formidable, and partook very much of the same character as the great works subsequently executed on the two Ghat imelines. They lay in a difficult and unfavourable district nearly covered with Jungle, full of rocky hills and mountain torrents, exceedingly unhealthy in certain parts, difficult of access, and nearly devoid of water during the hot season, The district was also very thinly populated. His arrangements for these great works were remarkably successful. Notwithstanding the great demand for labour, he had at one time seventeen thousand hands working under him, and by his judicious provision for their health and necessities, he succeeded in keeping them on the works even during the most unhealthy months of the year.

Besides these works on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, it fell to Jamshedji’s lot to construct some of the old quays and “bandars,” mills and public buildings in Bombay, and latterly a large portion of the railway beyond Ahmedabad. The works contracted for and successfully constructed by him cost nearly a million sterling.