IQO . GANJAM. 



jam furnish exporters with their own 

 produce at remunerative prices, and 

 themselves consume the cheaper grain 

 brought from Pooree to Rhumba on the 

 Chilka boats. 



There, too, is landed a good deal of 

 oil-cake, not destined, as might be sup- 

 posed, to fatten cattle, but to be used as 

 manure on the plots where sugar-cane 

 is cultivated. Richly manured land and 

 nine months' supply of water are needed 

 for the sugar crop, of which a good deal 

 is raised in Ganjam, and for this, oil- 

 cake manure is highly esteemed. 



The boats used on the lake are curi- 

 osities in their way. Seen at a little 

 distance the rise of the gunwale outline 

 at stem and stern gives these craft an 

 antique and classic look, but closer 



