Summary:  of the gods taller and firmer of limb, until at length the chieftain’s son, Ganesh by name, had no peer as a horseman, and Mazum the elder burned with martial ardour. The tribe increased steadily, drawing unto itself the remnants of panting and war- wearied people from all parts of the surrounding country; and the name of the Kaulbadi Khurim spread abroad like the flaming sword by night over the dwellings of men. At length the elders decided to beard the Koli and his myrmidons in their den, and so one night the youth of the tribe, led by Ganesh and Mazum, arose as a man and sallied forth to attempt the impossible. Care ful cred God was the leader of the expedition; but the outcome of the night’s adventure belied even his most sanguine expectations. For ere the dawn of the next day the marauders of the forest lay supine in their rude fort; and the brave men of the Kaulbadi Khurim, their faces worn by the night’s exertion, slew the last of the rebel hosts and raised their leader on their shields with shouts of triumph. This done Ganesh turned his back upon the Kaulbadi Khurim, his kinsmen and his former self, and became a leader among men. The tribes that had erstwhile trembled before the Koli and his dark hordes trembled now in equal measure before the white arm of the conqueror Ganesh, and with them trembled even the ancient Koli race themselves. And so it came about that the fresh breezes of the great North watched upon their course Gand and his companions onwards and ever onwards towards the South, until one day they hung out the conquering banner on the walls of Khandesh and set their feet on the road to India and to—the Sea.