﻿146 NARRATIVE OF A ROUTE 



pie at their alarm pofts were on -the watch. On 

 coming to the river, we difcovercd leveral Anall par* 

 ties of" matchlockmen icattered along the fands in its 

 bed. I halted to coUeft my party, and finding thu 

 ftream very fliallow, we eroded over v;ithout mplefta- 

 tioii, and encamped in a clear Ipot of ground on the 

 fbuthern bank, 



I MIGHT now be faid to have entered npon tbat 

 part of India which is known by the name of TtUin^ 

 gana, the inhabitants of which are called TellinghySy 

 and fpeak a language peculiar to themifelves. This 

 dialect appears to bear a ftrong rcfemblajice to what^ 

 in the CircarSy is called G&ntoos. 



Aftkr the beat of the day, and length of the march, 

 our lituation clofe to the river had a very refrefhing 

 and pleaiin^ eiieB. I was highly delighted with the 

 romantic view which the coniluence of the Godavery 

 and Baun Gunga rivers now prefented. I could fee 

 t|uite up to the fort of Suruncha ; and an opening be- 

 yond it likewifc fhewed the juntlion of the Inderowty 

 river Vvrith the latter. The blue mountains, and diftant 

 fore'.ls, which terminated the profpefl;, rendered the 

 whole a very fublime and interefting fcene, 



Thf.rk is here a final! Pagoda facred to the Hindoo 

 goddefs Cali, lituated on the north-eaft bank of the 

 river, at the coniluence; which imparts its name to 

 this palfage over the Guvga Godavery, called Caiifair 

 ghaut; and annually draws a great eoncourfe of pil- 

 grims, who, from ideas of purification, cometowaih 

 in the waters of the confluent flreams.* 



The bed of the Godavcry at this ghaut is about a 

 mile in breadth, and confided at this feafon of a wide 

 cxpanfe of fand. The quantity of water, where we 



crofled 



* The confluences of all, the principal rivers throual-.oiit Hindcoparty 

 a^ well as their fources, are places of- Hindoo worlhip and fuperflitjoii v 

 and to thefe many thoufands of pilgriiBs annually rcfort. 



