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situations. The road still lies along the N. bank of Comardairi, or S. 

 Mangalore river, which just below Uperangady bifurcates : the north 

 stream descends the ghauts in the vicinity, and the south stream rolls 

 down the steep of the lofty Subramani. The former is crossed to the 

 village, now (June) unfordable. 



Across this ford a dash was made on the insurgents by Colonel 

 Green's force, the pagoda fired, and the principal idols defaced and 

 broken; nothing remained but the tiled porticos and blackened walls. 

 The natives were carefully collecting the fragments of their desecrated 

 gods, and piling them up in the best order they could. The village is 

 large and populous, and contains besides Brahminical temples, a mat'h 

 of the Jungums, priests of the Lingayet sect, and a Jain busti. 



Cuddab. From Uperangady to Neranky, and thence to Cuddab, the 

 surface becomes more rugged and hilly, and the jungle, which is said 

 to be infested by elephants and tigers, higher and thicker. The road 

 leaving the northern branch approaches the southern, or Subramani 

 branch of the river. One of its tributaries, the Dhillampari, is crossed 

 by boat to Cuddab, a village containing many Concani Brahmins, 

 with Goadahs, Tulavas, Bunters, Walliars and Jains, the last of whom 

 have a busti here. I could scarcely find food or shelter, the shops and 

 Traveller's bungalow having been burnt by the insurgents. The Bungar 

 Rajah was, I believe, captured near this, in the house of a Jain. The 

 geological formation continues much the same as on the last march. 



Bottom of the Bisly Ghaut. The road to Culgund lies over hilly, 

 jungly ground. Two small tributaries to the Subramani river, the Bil- 

 lola and Cuddoo, are crossed ; both fordable, though the monsoon 

 rains are now descending literally in torrents, and the rocks and preci- 

 pices alive with leaping muddy rills. The jungle leeches were here 

 equally alive, and vigorous in their insidious attacks, and before I was 

 aware of their presence, had nearly fainted from loss of blood with 

 which my shoes were filled. 



The first sensation is that of itching ; and, in withdrawing the hand 

 from relieving that sensation, the traveller finds it covered with blood. 

 In a state of fasting this animal is rarely more than an inch long, and 

 hardly so thick as a small fiddle string. It has evidently keen powers 

 of scenting blood, and if the traveller stop but momentarily in the road, 

 they fasten on him in astonishing numbers, raising themselves on their 



