1850.] Report on the Statistics of Banda. 10/ 



65th. Pyal, the soft straw of the Kodon and wild Sawank, is much 

 used for horses' bedding. 



66th. These are the principal articles either cultivated or collected 

 from the jungle. 



67th. There is another which might be made to yield a most valu- 

 able product. The Wrightea tinctoria, Dudhi of the people here, 

 Indarjow of other parts of India, grows in abundance on the most 

 barren granite rocks, and yields a very large quantity of Indigo ; but 

 unfortunately its uses are unknown, and I have been unable to persuade 

 any one here to undertake the manufacture. 



68th. I annex a list of the plants I have found in the district, 

 Appendix II. 



69th. The wild animals are pretty numerous, antelopes and ravine 

 deer* are very abundant throughout the district. Nilgayis called Roz, 

 are not uncommon. The Sambur (or Elk) of southern India abounds in 

 the hills to the south of the district, and is very destructive to the 

 crops adjoining the jungles, as are the wild hogs. Spotted deer are rare ; 

 hog-deer unknown ; hares abundant. Of ferocious animals, the tiger 

 is not rare among the hills, sometimes extending his depredations into 

 the plains. One was killed in 1848, in the open country twenty miles 

 from the nearest jungle. Leopards are not uncommon in the rocky 

 hills, hyenas numerous, and wolves terribly abundant and destructive. 

 During 1848, 73 lives were reported in the Police offices as destroyed 

 by wolves. Consequently rewards of five Rupees for a full grown and 

 one Rupee for cub wolves have been sanctioned, and a considerable 

 number are brought in by the Kanjars. 



70th. Porcupines, ichneumons and rats are common, but the latter 

 do not seem to commit any depredation in the fields as they do in the 

 north-west. Snakes and scorpions are exceedingly numerous. No 

 fewer than 106 deaths from the bite of the former were reported 

 during 1848. 



(To be continued.) 

 * The ' Goat Antelope' of some, or Gazella caret, H. Smith. — Ed. 



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