138 EXCURSION TO PITTUREA. 



tical disquisition, I shall only observe that our 

 jurisdiction did not then extend to this coun- 

 try,, which was considered only tributary to 

 the English. 



I requested the head man to procure me a 

 few people the next morning to beat the 

 covers, as I intended to amuse myself with 

 shooting. In the evening I heard the Nag- 

 arrah [great drum] beating on a high tree; 

 and I was surprised in the morning to see five 

 or six hundred people assembled around rny 

 tent, armed with bows and arrows, spears and 

 swords; two of them only having match-lock- 

 guns. They all accompanied me to the sport, 

 but I had not the least controul over them, in 

 fact, they were too anxious to kill the game 

 themselves to listen to my directions, taking 

 it for granted that all I wanted, was to have 

 game killed; and indeed had they attended 

 to what I said, I do not think they would have 

 understood my language, as I could not under- 

 stand theirs. Although I saw several deer, I 

 could not fire at any through fear of wounding 



