BY W, KING, ESQ, 



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leaving Koodrar early in the morning and walking across 

 by night-time. But when evening fell we were not halfway 

 over, so we had to make ourselves as comfortable for the night 

 as possible on the side of the mountain, and manage through 

 the next day with a bottle of warmed-up tea and a couple of 

 biscuits, finally getting into camp very tired and hungry at 

 about 5 P. M. Our ten coolies behaved very well. They, 

 poor creatures, after their one meal the first day, had to 

 manage as well as they could on three of our cheroots an d 

 water. 



This path is now quite out of use and cannot be traced along 

 a good part of its old route, while it is not ridable, except on 

 the eastern side of the Nullamullays. For some miles on 

 either side it is used as a timber track. 



About 6 J miles north-east of Roodrar we got into the broad 

 valley of the stream which flows (during the rains) down to 

 the ruined tank south of the same village, and there we found 

 a belt of forest land something like, only not so thick as, that 

 of the Bolapilly valley ; with, however, very decided belts of 

 small teak trees growing along the banks of the stream and 

 its tributaries. The hot weather had not commenced, the time 

 when the teak begins to cast its leaves, so that at a distance 

 the belts were quite distinct through the forest with the 

 green of the great leaves of this tree. Here also, the teak 

 is generally grown from old stumps, which must have 

 been cut down some years ago, as the present trees are 

 mostly 20 to 30 feet high, and about a foot in diameter ; the 

 old trees having been from 5 to 6 feet in circumference. All 

 the rest of the hills about this valley was covered with the 

 usual jungle, amongst which were good-sized trees of Nulla- 

 muddy, Chiriman, Jitigi, Billoo, Yippa, and Goomer teak; 

 while there was a good deal of bamboo. There is a great 

 north and south timber road down this valley, 



