﻿j68 narrative of a routl 



ufe to us; and as thofe we had brought from Ewun- 

 ■pilly undertook to lead us, I ordered the followers to 

 move on with their baggage, and foon after followed 

 myfelf with the fepoys. Some parties itole into the 

 jungle upon our flanks; but finding that we kept a 

 conllant watch over them, they did not attempt to 

 fire upon us; and the jungle foon became fo thick, 

 that they were no longer able to make their way 

 through it, and we loll fight of them. 



I HAD now only one place more to pafs belonging 

 to the Paloonfiah Rajah ; a fmall pofl called after 

 him, ^AjJirufroiv Pett^ where we arrived about 2 P. M. 

 On our- approach, the people all ran into the fort; 

 but as they did not offer to molefl us, we foon paffed 

 it; and arrived, about four o'clock, at the little 

 village of Duhagooram, fituatcd on the Polaram Ra- 

 jah's frontier; and fubje£t to the Britifh government. 



May 2ifl. We had marched twenty-feven miles 

 from our lafl encampment; and the heat, for the lafl 

 two days, had harraffed us a good deal; but being 

 now arrived within the Company's territory, our 

 troubles were nearly at an end. Our grain was ex- 

 haufled; and the village being too fmall to afford us 

 any, I moved about fix miles to the village of Tar- 

 pilly, in the Talook of Reddy, where our very urgent 

 wants were fupplied. The inhabitants were a good 

 deal furprized at our appearance, not conceiving by 

 what road we could have come into that part of the 

 country; but knowing that, although we were not 

 attached to the Madras prefidency, we were fubjefts 

 to the fame government, they fliewed us every 

 attention. In two more eafy marches we reached 

 Yerlnagoodum, a place in Colonel Pe arse's route 

 fro.m Madras to Calcutta, where my geographical 

 labours terminated; and it being a road com- 

 monly frequented by the Britifh troops, I found 

 here on my arrival every refrefliment provided. 



