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confused, his eyes were closed up from the shock of the fall, and rush 

 of the smoky dust which rose soon after the fall of the stone on the 

 ground, in his front. He did not go close to the spot, thinking that 

 some devil or evil had come down from the heavens. Immediately 

 he went away to the village and mentioned the above circumstance to 

 the villagers, to which they replied that they would not go close to 

 the stone, because it might be injurious to them. He did not go 

 again to the spot with the Thanna Duffedar in that evening. He 

 never saw such an event happen before this in his life, though aged 

 about 70 years ; nor had he heard any one tell a story of that descrip- 

 tion. Also he added that the sky was very clear and bright, no clouds 

 or signs of rain upon it in that morning, but dew had fallen in the 

 night previous. 



" Mullay Gowda, an inhabitant of Annay Doddi, who witnessed the 

 other stone fall in the field half a mile distance from the other — 



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

 neighbouring field at about 800 yards distance from the spot, where 

 he saw the stone fall ; he heard the report of a gun three times suc- 

 cessively, followed by a curious ringing sound just as if a chain shot 

 was fired from a cannon. On hearing this, he was extremely frighten- 

 ed and confused and nearly senseless, and while he was thinking about 

 the noise he was hearing then, he saw something fall in the field of 

 CJhenday Gowda of " Hoskerray" and a good deal of dust rose from 

 the soil where the thing fell. 



On witnessing the above fall, and hearing the curious noise he 

 mentioned before, he was terrified, and did not think it advisable to 

 remain there alone, consequently he returned to his village. 



The stone fell from the north, rather obliquely than perpendicularly. 

 He did not go to see it again, because he thought that some calamity 

 or " Mari" (meaning his deity of evils) had come down on the land 

 to ruin the community. Next day he went out to the spot with the 

 Thanna Duffedar, who picked a sunken stone out of a hole, where it 

 was broken into several pieces : they were sunk in the soil, inclined 

 towards the north. He never saw such an incident at any time before 

 this; also he added that the sky was clear with no clouds on it, but 

 dew had fallen in the previous night." 



