136 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
along their summits of hard clay, thinly scattered with 
brush wood, and sometimes descending into vallies covered 
with a rich soil and exuberant vegetation, the high and now 
withered grass choaking up the little plantations. In two 
of those vallies we found banzas, differmg in nothing from 
that of Bomma, except that the roofs of the huts formed the 
segment of a circle instead of a triangle; close to them are 
two runs of water in ravines. At length we reached the 
banza, which is situated on the level summit of the 
highest hills amidst palm-trees, and plantations of vegetables, 
amongst which we were gratified with the sight of young 
cabbages in great perfection. In a few minutes I was 
ushered into the presence of the Chenoo, whom we found 
seated with two other Chenoos, in much more savage mag- 
nificence, but less of European manner, than the king of 
Bomma, the seats and ground being here covered with lions 
and leopard skins, the treading on which, by a subject of the 
highest rank, is a crime punished with slavery; and the care 
with which they stepped clear of them in passing to and fro, 
evinced that they never lost sight of the penalty. ‘The Che- 
noo, besides his red cloak laced, had on his head an enormous 
high cap of the white feathers of the heron. One of the other 
kings was covered with an old hat, and the third was wrapped 
in a velyet mantle, and on his head a coronet, with a large 
