﻿FROM CHUNARGHUR TO YERTN AGOOD UM. 6l 



v/hich hung over it. Upon enquiring of our guide 

 Concerning the place, I found that the fanciful no- 

 tions of the Hindoos had made it the abode of Ram,- 

 LiTCHMUN, and Seeta,* who, in their travels, were 

 faid to have reited in this place for a night; and the 

 Cole obferved to me, that the water I perceived in the 

 hollow of the rock, was the fame they had bathed 

 iheir feet in. My curiofity being fatisfied, we de- 

 fcended from the hill, and refumed our journey, 

 which terminated this day on the fouth bank of the 

 Soane, at a little village called Corary, confiding only 

 of two huts, and five inhabitants of the Cole tribe. 

 The bed of the river was about half a mile wide, and 

 full of quick fands; but the flream was not more than 

 a hundred yards broad, and flowed rapidly, with 

 about three feet water in the deepeft part. Many 

 imprefTions of the feet of wild beafts were here vifible. 



Being this day at a lofs for a place to encamp in, 

 and not wifhing to injure the Coles by encampino- on 

 the little fpots, which, with much care and toil, they 

 had cleared and cultivated, we took up our abode, 

 for the remainder of the day and night, in the jungle. 

 We found here the remains of two Hindoo temples, 

 which had been dedicated to Bhavany, wiai many 

 figures; but time had almofl confumed the buildings, 

 and had fo wafted the images, that the attribute of 

 each was fcarcely difcernible. 



Feb. 3d. The road continued between two ranges 

 of fmall hills, and through a forefl. confifting o^ Saul 

 trees, Seetfal, and Bamboos. The Mozvah tree was 

 here and there feen, and rarely the Burr and Ptepul; 

 but the ftems of all the large trees Vvcre choaked with 

 underwood. We arrived this day at .42^7/Z7jf, a vil- 

 lage confifting of abo-jt fifteen huts; and I was in- 

 formed, that it was the laft abode of men I fhould 

 meet with for fome diftance. A part of the Burdy 



Rajah's 



• Hindoo Deities, 



