1834.] Account of the Gold district of Mysore. 463 



extremely greedy, and if the body of one that is sucking is cut in half, 

 it still appears to suck, and the blood flows from where it was severed 

 in two. Night and day they are equally annoying : it is vain to lie 

 down at any prescribed hour, for no sleep can possibly be obtained, 

 unless we are completely exhausted by fatigue ; and in the morning 

 the face is rendered frightful to look at, and the hands and legs cover- 

 ed with blood. The flies also were almost as bad a8 the fleas ; they 

 were larger, though not so poisonous. x 



Khojah is the property of one Mirza Baba, who holds the appoint- 

 ment of Physician to the Prince Royal. Some years ago this erudite 

 pupil of Esculapius was sent to London by Abbas Mirza, for the pur- 

 pose of studying medicine, and he resided in the metropolis for a 

 considerable time, but it appears he was too lazy to obtain his di- 

 ploma. As he was temporarily attached to the suite of Prince Khosrou, 

 I had an opportunity of seeing a good deal of him ; and like most Asia- 

 tics that I have met, his countenance was so entirely at variance with 

 his conduct as to defy the boasted science of a physiognomist. He 

 always considered his kaleun a part of himself ; and in excuse for 

 being " Entre deux vins," he stoutly maintained that owing to the 

 cold and moisture of the weather, it was highly salutiferous to swallow 

 a dram whensoever it could be obtained. His sobriety, however, was 

 unimpeachable, he could drink all day with impunity : you might as well 

 have attempted to intoxicate a sponge. In fact, the only advantage he 

 appeared to have gained over the rest of his countrymen was that of 

 having added our vices to his own. 



[To be continued.'} 



V. — Observations on the Golden Ore, found in the Eastern Provinces of 



Mysore in the year 1802. By Lieut. John Warren, H. M. 33rd 



Regiment. 



[On looking over the manuscript papers of the Asiatic Society, we have found 

 the following account, dated in 1802, of the mines near Venkatagiri in the Car- 

 natic which, as it gives the original observations of an officer of ability, known 

 as the author of the Kala Sankalita, we are induced to publish at this moment, 

 when the gold mines of the opposite coast are attracting public attention both at 

 home and in India. — Ed.] 



As I was employed in surveying the eastern boundary of Mysore in 

 the month of February, 1802, I heard a vague report that gold had 

 been found in the earth somewhere near a small hill, about nine miles 

 east of Budicatta*, and on which the frontier I was then describing 



* Yerra Baterine Hill. 



