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shaft is held by a cross-piece of bamboo with a hole in it, 

 and the basket is filled with stones to get the required 

 weight. Two boys tnrn the bamboo round. The barrels 

 are made in pieces of about eighteen inches long, which 

 are first bored small, and then welded together upon a 

 straight iron rod. The whole barrel is then worked with 

 borers of gradually increasing size, and in three days the 

 boring is finished. The whole matter was explained in 

 such a straightforward manner that I have no doubt the 

 process described to me was that actually used ; although, 

 when examining one of the handsome, well-finished, and 

 serviceable guns, it was very hard to realize the fact, that 

 they had been made from first to last with tools hardly 

 sufficient for an English blacksmith to make a horse-shoe. 



The day after we returned from our excursion, the 

 Rajah came to Ampanam to a feast given by Gusti 

 Gadioca, who resides there ; and soon after his arrival we 

 went to have an audience. We found him in a large 

 courtyard sitting on a mat under a shady tree ; and all his 

 followers, to the number of three or four hundred, squat- 

 ting on the ground in a large circle round him. He wore 

 a sarong or Malay petticoat and a green jacket. He was 

 a man about thirty-five years of age, and of a pleasing 

 countenance, with some appearance of intellect combined 

 with indecision. We bowed, and took our seats on the 

 ground near some chiefs we were acquainted with, for 



