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a beautiful frog, richly shaded and spotted with blue, yellow, 

 orange, white, and black ; the black and white halcyon, mentioned 

 at Fort Victoria, and some delicate specimens of the tree-frog, and 

 flying lizard, called by naturalists draco volans. Most of the planls 

 in the Tellicherry district are similar to those indigenous to An- 

 jengo, already described. Many of the wild flowers are beautiful, 

 none more so than the gloriosa-superba, which in the southern dis- 

 tricts of Travcncorc is a destructive weed. The specimens brought 

 to Tellicherry well deserved the epithet superba; the elegant clus- 

 ters of flowers, arrayed in brilliant flame-colour, pendent in every 

 graceful form, from this climbing plant, running over the hedges, 

 add an uncommon richness to the foreground of the Malabar 

 landscape. The root of the gloriosa is of a poisonous nature, and 

 being sometimes mistaken for edible roots, occasions very deleteri- 

 ous effects, and sometimes death. 



Every rural excursion in the neighbouring country, and every 

 social pleasure in the fortress, was tinged with gloom from reports 

 daily reaching us of the sad fate of our unfortunate countrymen in 

 the dominions of Tippoo Sullaun. Some gentlemen belonging to 

 the embassy lately sent from Madras to Mangulore to settle terms 

 of peace with that prince, as noticed in the preceding account of 

 Onore, brought us the most dreadful intelligence of the British 

 prisoners in Mysore. Bednore capitulated to Tippoo Sultaun the 

 end of April 1/83, on honourable terms. On an ill-founded and 

 frivolous pretence of an infringement of the treaty, General 

 Mathews, and a garrison of six hundred Europeans and fifteen 

 hundred sepoys, were treacherously made prisoners, treated in 

 the most ignominious manner, and marched with savage cruelly to 



