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surprise was too much for the Sawunts, 

 and they fled, leaving the forts empty 

 and undefended. Phond Sawunt and 

 his sons were captured in the Goa 

 jungles not long afterwards, and im- 

 prisoned ; and so ended the Sawuntwari 

 rising. 



The course of my official tour in 

 Soopah made me acquainted with every 

 part of it, and I found that almost the 

 entire area was occupied by a vast 

 forest, consisting in great part of 

 valuable teak timber. A well-grown 

 teak tree is a beautiful thing, the trunk 

 is straight and shapely, ascending from 

 forty to sixty feet without a branch; 

 above this imposing shaft the limbs of 

 the tree extend laterally in much the 

 same proportions as those of the Scotch 



