26o GANJAM. 



the triangular-shaped group of hills in- 

 habited by these Khonds. 



From this point I intended to enter 

 their country and effect the capture of 

 the murderers of the headman of an 

 Ooriyah village on the Bodagudda bor- 

 der. This had been already attempted 

 by a body of police, but they had been 

 attacked by the Khonds and baffled. 

 The people of the two villages to which 

 the culprits belonged deserted their 

 villages and took to less accessible 

 refuges in their hills. 



As most of our armed police were 

 absent in the country of the Kootiya 

 Khonds, I got together, with some 

 difficulty, a body of about seventy con- 

 stables, composed chiefly of men from 

 the posts in the low country, and armed 



