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nearly two thousand feet below the 

 average level of the country, ran the 

 Kala JSTuddee, or black river, which as 

 it left the limits of Soopah turned due 

 west and reached the sea at Sedashe- 

 ghur, not far from the boundary line 

 between Canarese and Portuguese terri- 

 tory. Notwithstanding the great depth 

 to which the river had furrowed the 

 surface of the country, the ravine had 

 not the nature or appearance of a 

 canon, the sides slopes, though very 

 steep, were practicable for an active 

 man, and were covered from top to 

 bottom with lofty teak trees.* 



* During a subsequent visit to Soopah I sent 

 round my horses by the usual road, and followed 

 this tract through the ravine and over the river. 

 It proved rather an arduous walk, but a very 



