CHAPTER V. 



Ban(;alore— The Neilghekkiks — The State of Mysore — Hassan — 

 Beltir — Life on a Coffee-Plantation — Flora anp Fauna — 

 The Stjkali Gipst Tribe — Natia^e Sacrifice — Coffee Harvest 

 — The Bundh Ghaut — Mangalore — Fain Temple — British 

 Administkation of India. 



Anxious to see more of Southern India, and hearing 

 such glowing accounts of the hilly region of Mysore, 

 I determined to travel right across by way of Bangalore 

 and down the western Ghaut to Mangalore, whence 

 there is a regular steamboat communication with 

 C-eylon. 



After a comfortable night's journey in a sort ot 

 sleeping car, Ave reached the Bangalore railway station 



