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fired three times, at 7 a. m. of the 21st September, 1865, but the 

 facts were not known until the stones were brought to the Talook 

 Cutchery." 



" Kenda, an inhabitant of Annay Doddi in the Anay Hobli of the 

 Muddoor Talook — 



Stated that at 7 a. m. of the 21st September, 1865, he was picking 

 grass in a neighbouring Kaghi field, at about 200 yards distance from 

 the spot where one of the stones fell at the above time ; this field 

 belonged to Moodghiri, a Revenue Peon of the Talook. 



Before the fall of the stone, he heard at once a report as of a cannon 

 fired three times in the air, continued with a ringing sound for some 

 time afterwards, just as if a hot or chain shot were fired in the air. 

 Soon after this, he saw that something fell from the sky in the above 

 field, obliquely from the north. On seeing this, he was extremely 

 terrified, his eyes were closed up from the rush of the smoky dust 

 which rose from the earth directly after the fall of the stone : he did 

 not go close to it, because he thought that some calamity had de- 

 scended there from the heavens : he immediately went away to the 

 above village, leaving his grass picking, and informed the villagers at 

 12 a. m. of the same day. 



The Thanna DufTedar and Peons came to his village at 6 p. m. of 

 that day, whom he took to the spot and pointed out the place where 

 the stone had fallen. The Duffedar first touched the stone with a stick, 

 and when he found that it was safe to feel it with his hand, he took 

 it out of the hole where it was buried half in the sand, bent northward 

 a little. 



The sky was very clear, with no clouds. He heard people say that 

 the dew had fallen in the night previous, but he did not see any 

 signs of it, because he went out late in the morning." 



" Channay Goivda, an inhabitant of Annay Doddi, who was present 

 at 200 yards distance, at the time when the stone fell in the above field, — 



Stated that, at the above time and date, he was picking grass in a 

 neighbouring field at about 200 yards distance from the place where 

 the above stone fell ; all at once he heard a report as of a cannon fired 

 three times in the air, followed by a ringing noise like that of a chain 

 shot, Shortly after this he saw something fall in the field of the 

 Revenue Peon Moodgherri; on seeing this, he was highly terrified and 



