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him. Finding he could not prevail on me to fell him 

 the Toorky, he then tried to parchafe a little horfe be- 

 longing to the Jemadar of my efcort, and one of the 

 fepoys tattoos. As the animals ^vere much reduced, 

 and a good price was offered, bar,a;ains were very near 

 being concluded; when conceiving it might create 

 a fafpicion of our being on a trading concern, I im- 

 mediately put a flop to the ti aflfic ; and as they did not 

 offer any impediment to my proceeding, I ordered the 

 cattle to be loaded, and we moved off, leaving Nar- 

 RAiN Row and his people fomewhat difappointed. 



The mountains continue clofe down to the eaft fide 

 of the Godavery^ oppofite this place; and the wild in- 

 habitants fometimes extend their depredations into the 

 country on this fide of the river. The Tellingkys de- 

 tailed to us fome horrid acts of barbarity that had at- 

 tended the pillaging of their village bv the Goands : 

 thefe, they laid, were always committed by fecret 

 nocturnal expeditions; in which the m.ountaineers had 

 frequently eluded the vigilance of their alarm polls, 

 and furprized the villagers while at reft ; and neither 

 the defencelefs perfons of women, or children, had, 

 in fuch cafes, efcaped their favage fury. Their wea- 

 pons are bows and arrows, hatchets, and lances. 



Having afterwards heard of a people, who, in the 

 Northern Circars, are called Ccands, and whofe de- 

 predations into thofe provinces are attended with fimi- 

 lar acts of cruelty, I naturally conceived them to be 

 the fame tribe; but, in a convcrfation with Cumaul 

 Mahummed, the officer in charge of the Mahrotta 

 Piirgunnah of Manickpatam ; and v/ho appeared to be 

 well acquainted with the different tribes of moun- 

 taineers fubject to the Eerar government; he informed 

 me, that thefe are a different race from the Goands. 

 The latter, he laid, are much larger men, and had, 



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