28 WILD LIFE IN NORTH CANARA. 



Colonel Wallace pressed the Sawunts 

 hard, and at last Phond Sawunt and 

 his seven sons and a body of their 

 retainers threw themselves into two 

 forts so difficult of access that they 

 were reported by the natives to be 

 impregnable. One of the forts was 

 called Munoghur, or "the forb of the 

 heart," the other Munosuntosh, "the 

 delight of the mind." 



But Colonel Wallace at last destroyed 

 the reputation of these maiden forts. 

 He discovered that there was a secret 

 way of approach from the foot of a 

 precipice called the elephant rock, and 

 having made his preparations, he one 

 night lowered guns and men down the 

 face of the precipice and marched upon 

 Munoghur and Munosuntosh. The 



