EASTERN HINDOOSTAN. li 



to European difcipline, bravely entered the breach. A fiii- 

 gular fight prefented itfelf at the foot. In the lecond wall 

 appeared three champions (one a very bulky man in com- 

 plete armour) who fought with the iitmoft gallantry, till they 

 fell overpowered with numbers. The Madurians had {o fe- 

 cured the inner wall, that Cope, after fome lofs, was obliged 

 to retire, and to burit his fingle cannon, which had done fuch 

 fervice, leaft it fhould fall a trophy into the hand of the 

 enemy*. This war, and another in Tinevelly, were carried on by 

 the Engl[fh in fupport of their ally, the Nabob of the Carnalic, 

 from whofe ufurped power thofe provinces had revolted, pof- 

 fibly in fome diftant period. 



The next coaft is that of the two Moravars, the greater and The Mora- 



"^ VARS. 



the lener : the latter is alio called Shevigunga. In 1773 we car- 

 ried Qur arms into thefe countries, under the condudl of General 

 Jofepb Smith, who, after killing the Rajah, efFe6led its conqueft. 

 Thefe, and the adjacent countries, are covered with thick 



forefts, and little cultivated, by reafon of the favage inhabitants, Polygars and 



C0LLERIJE.S. 

 the Polygars and CoHeries, who may be truly ftyled Sylvejires 



homines : As to the word Collerie it fignifies a thief, and moft 



truly, for plunder is their fole employ : their government, and 



that of the Polygars, is feudal. Of the Colkries, there are thirty 



or forty thoufand. Calicoil was the ftrong hold of the lord 



paramount the Rajah, furrounded by woods and artificial 



flrengths : he was in it when furprifed and llain. More will 



be faid of the Polygars, when we fpeak of the famous chieftairt 



of Bobilee, in the northern Circars. 



* Orme, i, p. 120. 



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