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latter are also employed for all agricultural purposes, their natural 

 habits better suiting them for the work than bullocks, who knock 

 up ploughing through fields knee-deep in slush and mud. In the 

 hills, I have come across some most noble specimens of the domestic 

 buffalo far larger even than those magnificent animals found 

 with the Todas of the Neilgherries ; they have to be avoided how- 

 ever, for their forest life preserves them almost in a wild state. 

 The class of cart used in the plains corresponds with the solid- 

 wheeled vehicle met with in British territory. The following is a 

 list of that portion of my collection of trees, shrubs, ferns, and 

 grasses with which I was familiar, the remainder were unknown to 

 me, and must be published at some future time when they can be 

 identified — Quercus, Castanea, Acanthacece, Kaulfussia, Alsophila, 

 Pentaptera, Magnolia, Fici (exclusive of Ficus elastica), Begonia laurine, 

 Dicksonia, Cedrela toona, Dipterocarpus, Gordonia, Elceocarpus, Gut- 

 tiferce, Megola, Smithea, Careya,Phyllanthus, Dillenia, Emblica, Arbutus t 

 Hoya, Shorea, Davallia, Buttneria, Podostemon, Smilax, Brakes (some 

 seven feet high), Calami, Viola patrinii, Musa, Phrygnium, Ixora, 

 Poederia, Panicum, Plantago, Daphne, Bubus (near villages), Strutheol- 

 oides, Arum, Grew i a (two varieties), and Urtica nivea ; Saccharum 

 officinarum was also common. My diet of the last few days brought 

 on an attack of dysentery, for which the stewed chillies were to blame 

 I believe, for I remember Captain Strover cautioned me against 

 eating many of them as being conducive to this disease. 



268. Sunday, 25th January 1874. — Rose at 6 a.m. ; thermome- 

 ter, 45°. Took a constitutional, and bagged some painted partridge, 

 jungle fowl, and Carpophaga sylvatica; also saw numbers of ducks 

 and geese, but could not get a shot. On my return, found a snake 

 (Calamaria monticola) had been killed in my cabin, which measured 

 two feet four inches. The next few hours were spent in receiving and 

 making presents. The same precedence had to be observed in 

 entertaining the Kakhyens , and accepting their gifts as was followed 

 when visiting them. It was no easy matter to keep these inquisitive 

 people from swamping my boat altogether, for, eager to see the inte- 

 rior arrangement of my cabin, they pressed on in such numbers that 

 I clearly saw that, unless I received them on land, there would be an 

 accident ; accordingly, I established myself on the bank beneath a 

 large umbrella, and the Tswabwas sat beside me. The business of 

 giving and receiving presents being at an end, I returned to my boat 

 for breakfast ; but even then I was not left alone, and was compelled 

 at last to satisfy their curiosity by turning the boat bow on to 

 shore, and throw open the front door for their general edification. 

 Returning to my umbrella, where large supplies of pdn-suparee, lime, 

 and tobacco had already been laid out on plantain leaves for 



