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from October, 1844, to near the close 

 of 1848; and I served in Ganjam as 

 collector, magistrate, and agent in the 

 hill tracts from August, 1858, to Sep- 

 tember, 1867. The illustrations for the 

 Canarese portion of my narrative have 

 been supplied by my friends Mr. Ward 

 and Mr. Ballard, the frontispiece being 

 from a painting of Mr. Ballard' s, taken 

 from an original sketch of the falls of 

 Gairsappa by another old friend, the 

 late Mr. Charles Whittingham; the 

 coast scenery is from very accurate 

 drawings by Mr. Ward, and the en- 

 campment at Neelcoond is from a sketch 

 of my own. 



