“ SARTAGE” IN INDIA, 79 
In an old Koomaree the jungle trees grow up again, but 
they are unfit for building purposes; and in this respect 
settlers in. the country are put to expense and incon- 
venience, as well as the Government, in their building 
operations, and coffee-planters generally find their planting 
operations brought to a very unsatisfactory and abrupt 
termination by a Koomaree, on which I have never been 
able to get coffee to grow yet. In Nuggur, where Koomaree 
cultivation was prohibited, stringent regulations in regard 
to the cutting of timber were issued at the same time. 
Every person requiring wood was required to apply before 
felling it; the cultivator had not to pay for it, but the 
non-cultivator had, and I am of opinion that these 
measures have operated pretty well, The more I think of 
Koomaree the more surprised I feel that it has been toler- 
ated for such a length of time. It is carried on by a set 
of savages, in every sense of the word, who would be much 
more profitably employed on public works or on coffee 
plantations.’ 
This testimony of Mr Cannan is in accordance with 
what has been observed by others, including, I believe, 
all those who have given attention to the subject. But Dr 
Cleghorn speaks alike of ‘the axe of the coffee-planter 
and of the Koomaree cultivator, as having made extensive, 
and even wanton havoc, devastating a large portion of the 
area of the primeval forest. 
In regard to clearings for coffee plantations, Dr Cleg- 
horn states in another report :— 
‘The successful cultivation of the coffee plant is exceed- 
ingly remarkable, and applications for grants of forest 
land pour in upon the revenue authorities. In the 
‘Sispara, Perambady, and Sampajee, vast clearings are 
being made. In the Kumur-Ghat six large plantations 
may be seen; and there are very large and numerous 
holdings above thirty in the Waindd, which from year to 
year will increase. The plant has succeeded admirably in 
