88 WILD LIFE IN NORTH CANARA. 



generally made their way to tlie rocks 

 of Yaana, a strange, weird spot, remote 

 from human abodes, and just on the 

 eastern border of the Ancola forest, 

 where the trees give place to grassy, 

 open downs. A Hindoo sunygasi, or 

 hermit, lived in a cave under the over- 

 hanging rock, and received the offerings 

 of pilgrims. 



On the upper part of the rock, and in 

 a position inaccessible both from above 

 and below, hung in numbers the combs 

 and nests of wild bees. In the old times 

 it is said that on certain occasions all 

 the women of Gokern and the surround- 

 ing country marched in procession round 

 these rocks. The bees watched the devo- 

 tees as they passed, and if there chanced 

 to be among them any woman whose 



