APRIL — JUNE 1857. 
over ilie Annamullay Mountains. 83 
statement of distances, and says tliat there is no open space after 
Toonacadavoo is passed. (From Malliatoor the river turns to the 
southward of east, and is no further navigable for boats, at this sea- 
son.) To Attripully 20 miles north, Amakimtodoo 20 miles N. E., 
Oracumbum river 6 miles N., Yeddapally 20 miles N., Toonacada- 
voo 20 miles X. E., AnpamuUay 12 miles N. E. Total 98 miles. 
I know however that Attripully is not further Aan 12 miles ; and 
the printed map gives me so much confidence in the rest being still 
more over-rated, that I shall dismiss all the people I can spare, and 
make the attempt ; particularly since it is possible that the Tobac- 
co monopoly may shortly end its days, when this path will close 
for want of use. If it was not for this man's statement, I should 
reckon upon one night only in the jungle, and the second I should 
hope to be at Annamullay. 
The guide who has come forward to take me through the hills 
is a sturdy little smuggler with legs that look up to a mountain 
scramble ; and with eyes that betoken more than the ordinary in- 
telligence of southern Natives. When he was brought to give me 
what information he could, (or rather would,) I heard his voice 
at some distance round a corner, but could not see what sort of 
man I had to trust to ; and twice I begged that he would show 
himself, without my wish being gratified. On inquiry into the 
cause of this, I found that one of the party round me was 
a Brahmin within 20 yards of whom it was not lawful for a 
Teer to stand. This little matter of etiquette being disposed of, 
I requested my Brahmin friend to take his leave that I might talk 
with more freedom amongst my equals. This Brahmin however, 
soft and effeminate as he appeared, was evidently on the same sub- 
ject a man of information too ; and unless he had a wonderfully 
retentive memory for tales of travel, had more than once crossed 
the hills by the smuggler's path. It would not however have been 
altogether right in me to suggest the possibility of his acting on 
free-trade principles, which in this little state rendered a man lia- 
ble to hard labor on the roads in irons ; and after being indebted 
to his civility for the knowledge of my little smuggler chief's resi- 
dence, it would have been gross ingratitude to hint that his sacred 
