1844.] Narrative of the last outbreak, fyc. 



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evidently a fragment closes in the 104th Sloka, with an enu-^ 

 meration of wares, replete with obscure terms, free from any 

 anachronisms. 



I believe that the people of Anjuwannam and Manigrdm- 

 rnam here mentioned as belonging to yonder country, can 

 only mean Jews and Christians, (or Manicheans) who,*for 

 commerce sake, settled also beyond the PerumdTs territories. 

 It would be interesting to know who the two other classes are. 

 In the mean time, the existence of four trading communities 

 in the old Kerala seems to be proved, and the pogGy (o)_qj< 

 of the 1st Syrian document, receives some elucidation from 

 this incidental allusion. 



III. — Narrative of the last outbreak and final subjugation 

 of the Southern Poligars. By the late Mr. George A . 

 Hughes, of Tachinore in Tinnevelly. 



[Mr. Hughes, an Indo-British gentleman, well known for his commer- 

 cial enterprise and successful speculations in tfie southern districts, was 

 the son of Mr. Hughes, of the Madras Civil Service, formerly Paymaster 

 of Madura. He was sent to England at an early age, and received an 

 excellent education under the charge of his un^cle, Dr. Hughes, Principal 

 of' Jesus College, Cambridge. On his return to India, after serving as a 

 clerk under the Resident of Travancore, and in the office of Mr. S. R. 

 Lushington, Collector of the Southern Poligar Peishcush, he was appointed 

 by Colonel Bannerman, the Officer entrusted with the charge of quelling 

 the Poligar insurrection of 1779, to be Malabar and Gentoo Interpreter 

 with the force, on the pay and allowances of a Captain, which was con- 

 firmed by Government on the 26th September, 1799. He continued in 

 the same situation under Colonel Agnew in 1801, and afterwards in 1808 

 he accompanied the force under General St. Leger, during the Travan- 

 cop war, and received the thanks of Government for his services, on the 

 27th February, 1809. In the interim he had engaged in commercial pur- 

 suits and entered into partnership with Mr. Charles Wallace Young, who 

 between 1805 and 1808, obtained a lease of a large extent of waste land 

 for the cultivation of Coffee, Indigo, and Cotton, in Tinnevelly, at an an- 

 nual rent of 2000 Rupees, to continue to the close of the Company's 

 Charter. 



