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larger, some smaller all over the body, and although 

 said not to be leprous, is clearly referrible to that 

 class of disease. — Trimbuk Das was afflicted to an 

 offensive degree, but the disease, after baffling every 

 effort of skill that could be exerted, yielded to the 

 prayers of Gabajee Deo, seconded by the long- 

 proved piety of the patient ; who undeviatingly, 

 during a course of I think seven or eight years, vi- 

 sited the hol}^ man on a certain day of every moon, 

 using on his return home, in partial and general 

 lavements, the purifying water with which he and 

 others had devoutly washed the feet of the sanctified 

 personage : from such faith and piety he became 

 whole and clean, and is now a perfectly sightly man. 

 — very few years have elapsed since this miracle was 

 completed. 



The foregoing is the result of my inquiries on the 

 subject of the Chinchoor Deo, to which tedious de- 

 tail I have to add an account of a visit we paid him 

 on the lOth of January 1800. 



I HAD expected to find Chinchoor, like JejooreCy 

 filled with beggars, but was mistaken, for it bears 

 the appearance of an industrious town; the houses 

 are good, the streets clean, the shops well supphed, 

 and the ground about it indicating seasonable culti- 

 vation ; the town is pleasantly situated on the left 

 bank of a pretty river, and is said to contain five 

 thousand inhabitants, including three hundred Bia- 

 min families : we arrived early, and after seeing the 

 principal temples, which are near the river, and the 

 environs of the town, we took our breakfast of milk, 

 fruit and bread, in a Bramin's house. Some of our 

 party not being accustomed to the society of calves 

 and horses, were rather annoyed by them, as well as 

 by smoke. Our party consisted of Colonel and 

 Lord George Beresford, and my colleague Mr. 

 LovETT — a Bramin to introduce us to the Deo, an 

 old acquaintance and fellow traveller of mine — an- 



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