CHAPTER IV. 



HONAMA AND HIS MEN. 



ABOUT two miles from Belikeri Bay was 

 a village inhabited by Canarese ryots, 

 who cultivated rice in the low-lying 

 fields round their houses, and dry grain 

 crops of various kinds in forest clear- 

 ings, and who largely supplemented 

 their food supply by netting and spear- 

 ing hog, deer, and elk in the jungles. 

 Unlike Byroo and his fishermen, who 

 were Roman Catholics, descendants of 

 Xavier's converts, Honama and his 

 brethren were Hindoos, and of a dif- 



