prdv&ittdit did noi r::in. At ii h 15' we inarched At - \ .t 



crofs a watercourle from which the air before us wis filled wi > 

 immenfe body of locuffc, fome of which were of a light yellow ; but 

 the greater number of an orange colour. On heaps of weeds that were 

 dry, and on Hones, they ifTembled by forties and fifties, and remained 

 c ' he fun-fhine; but others were actively employed in eating the 



r Mandua* now nearly ripe. They had been here about two 



n but had not done as much mifchief as I fhould have fuppol'ed. 



A .^o^ard made frequent vilits to this neighbourhood, had taken 

 away three children, and killed two men 5 but the place to which he 

 reforted with his prey was unknown. At the fame place where we 

 encamped before, we now pitched our tents, clofe to a temple. Every 

 other fpot for a great extent was occupied by a crops of rice, Mdrcha, 

 Mandua, and Sawah/r The people of the neighbourhood faid, that the 

 leopard would certainly make an attack upon our goats ia the night ; 

 and we took precautions accordingly by fetting a firong watch with 

 loaded guns, and keeping up a good fire. 



September 21ft. — Thermometer 55°. The leopard has committed 

 fome ravage in a village to the Eaft of JuJJit-math. In this village my 

 goats were yeiterday entangled, and with no fmall trouble and lofs 

 of time I extricated them out of the filthy and intricate roads. Goats 

 are cleanly animals: when they reached one filthy fpot, the leading 



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animals flopped, and the whole flock was delayed in a narrow path 

 overhung with long grafs, and from which ilfued a {freak drawn 

 upwards by the heat of the fun, that was fcarcely fupportable by man, 

 and muft have been greatly annoying to the animals fhut up in an 



* Eleufinc Coracana. 

 •t Panipum Colonuin 



