to examine the- remains, &c. 51 



January 22, 

 We were to have proceeded at 4 a. m. but we 

 ïiad slept so well after our fatigues tbat it was 

 six before we started, and our baggage had 

 scarcely preceded us half an hour; we also re- 

 niained somewhat longer to ^et a litter made 

 up for a Madras Lascar that attended me^ 

 whohad been so violentlv attached bv a bloody- 

 fiux that it was impossibleforhim toride; wegot 

 two of the Battors prevailed on to carrv him in 

 this awkward convejance, or I should have been 

 much at a h)ss to have got him off froni the 

 Sultan's inhospitable domain. The morning 

 was heavy and calm. The Mirapi peak was 

 extremely clear at seven, and from i<s summit 

 two or three columns of smoke were distinctly 

 \isible ; a bank of Fog clung around the brow 

 of the mountain one third down, which as the 

 Sun arose^ gradually ascended, increasing its 

 compass till about twelve^ when it had entirely 

 "veiled the mountain. 



The Road as far as Clattau was tolerablv drv, 

 and we walkeda good part of it, till interrupted 

 by the channels cut across from one field to an- 

 other. In these fields, all the varieties of Paddy 

 cultivation, except sowing, might bc secu in a 

 short compass; tillagC;, planting, transplanting. 



