APRIL — JUNE, 1857.] over the AtmamuUay Mountains. 8T 
He did not know the name or nation of tlie man who died there, 
but seemed to have some reverence for the spot and spoke of the 
murder as a martyrdom. 
Our road to this had been due north, or nearly so, and by our 
reckoning we had travelled 10| miles. "We now turned to east, 
north east, and left tl*e river, though by the printed map the 
stream flows very parallel to the course we took. The path was 
well trodden all the way, and there were fresh notches on the trees 
showing that the smuggler had passed it the day before. This 
plan of notchii^g the trees as they pass along must have been 
adopted by the smugglers when the path was less open than it is 
at present; for the road is now so clear that a horseman might 
canter along the whole of it. The traces of elephants though seen 
everywhere, were none of them very recent, proving beyond doubt 
that we were not near the banks of the large river. This had 
one advantage that it saved us from the risk we had run in rid- 
ing to Attripully, of going when we least expected it, into well 
secreted pitfalls ; which here and there, so completely " opened" 
the road to all that came, that we had cause to doubt from step to 
step the ground our horses trod upon. The pitfalls are of course 
dug where the elephants most frequent the forestj and at this 
season, as the minor rivulets are dry, their haunts are by the larg- 
est streams. After riding five miles we came upon a heap of 
teak timber, which had been cut a few years ago by the Cochin 
Circar, and left there, after they gave up working the forests. Now 
this, our guide, said was cut in a place called Nelliampoyd, but 
where that was he did not know. This was bad news, in one res- 
pect, for it showed me beyond a doubt that if I followed him I was 
not to go the path I wished most to see, that which led west 
of Annamullay. There was however, nothing to be done, the 
guide knew one way only, and that of course led to where tobacco 
was grown in greatest abundance east of the town of Annamul- 
lay. • 
In the first part of our ride there was a sad want of water, and 
when the trees did not meet over head, the heat was excessive ; 
but where the shade was good, the temperature was most agreea- 
