1:3G CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



along their summits of hard clay, thinly scattered with 

 brush wood, and sometimes descending into vallies covered 

 with a rich soil and exuberant vegetation, the high and now 

 withered grass choaking up the little plantations. In two 

 of those vallies we found banzas, differing in nothing from 

 that of Bomma, except that the roofs of the huts formed the 

 segment of a circle instead of a triangle ; close to them are 

 two runs of water in ravines. At length we reached the 

 banza, which is situated on the level summit of the 

 highest hills amidst palm-trees, and plantations of vegetables, 

 amongst which we were gratified with the sight of young 

 cabbages in great perfection. In a few minutes I was 

 ushered into the presence of the Chenoo, whom we found 

 seated with two other Chenoos, in much more savage mag- 

 nificence, but less of European manner, than the king of 

 Bomma, the seats and ground being here covered with lions 

 and leopard skins, the treading on which, by a subject of the 

 highest rank, is a crime punished with slavery; and the care 

 with which they stepped clear of them in passing to and fro, 

 e\"inced that they never lost sight of the penalty. The Che- 

 noo, besides his red cloak laced, had on his head an enormous 

 high cap of the white feathers of the heron. One of the other 

 kings was covered with an old hat, and the third was wrapped 

 in a velvet mantle, and on his head a coronet, with a large 



