THE NULL AuMULLAYS. 



hill, and by following this, or taking a shorter path 

 direct from the bungalow, the well or watering-place is 

 reached, some 300 feet below, on the eastern side. A 

 well has been partly sunk and partly built up on the out- 

 cropping edge of some quartzite beds, but the supply of 

 water seemed very small at this time, and it was dirty look- 

 ing. Perhaps, however, both the quantity and quality may 

 be improvable by clearing out the place. At any rate, beside 

 the well, a large garden has been cleared, railed in, and 

 planted in the forest ; and though it is now much overgrown 

 with jungle and partly destroyed, we saw mangoe lime 

 and peach trees growing very well, and even gathered a few 

 roses and some hard and diminutive peaches. There were 

 also the unmistakable marks of a large tiger, near the bony 

 fragments of a sambur which he had been devouring in the 

 middle of the garden. 



Hence, we wandered for some miles eastward, and saw 

 some splendid forest land full of fine timber trees, as Nulla- 

 mudday, Chiriman, Yerramudday, Jitigi, Goomer-teak, some 

 Tumki (Blackwood), and a good deal of Teak. A great many 

 felled trees had been most ruthlessly cut away to give the 

 small bauks (about 10 to 12 feet long), which alone the wood- 

 cutters can carry out, owing to their small means of 

 transport. They will cut down a splendid Nullamudday 

 with a clear stem of 30 or 40 feet, 3 or 4 feet from the base> 

 leaving a good stump of timber ; and then cut the great trunk 

 into two logs, thereby wasting a lot of wood where it ha s 

 been cut across. There is also a good deal of fine and large 

 bamboo in this forest basin to the east of Mantyconda. 



Occasionally, in wandering along here, we came on more 

 open tracts of forest in which the teak tree is prevalent, 

 but, as is usually the case all over these mountains, 

 grown from stumps. Here, some of the trees are good> 



