1HE Mi ULL A.MULLA Y S . 



This valley possesses the peculiar feature, according to the 

 map, of having a stream without an outlet ! and we camped 

 beside it for the night at a watering place. The stream, as 

 far as I could make out, runs south-south- east to Kistnum- 

 shettypilly. The water was not running, but lay in a dark 

 pool, which probably becomes dry later on in the season. 



From this point, we wished to move our camp in a north- 

 west direction, somewhere on the path which our guide re- 

 ported as leading up to Manty condah, so as to get up to that 

 hill, and come to a halt in the Brumeshwar valley, beside the 

 flowing water. But before we ourselves could follow the 

 camp, we wanted to see the whole of the CottaCunnama, and, 

 if possible, the Nemilly Goondum waterfall to the north of 

 the road, reported by Mr. Foote to be a place well worth 

 seeing. "Unfortunately there was only one guide, and it 

 was necessary to send him on with the coolies ; so, with 

 the understanding that he was to cast a branch or some 

 leaves on any turning of the road which he might follow 

 we started by ourselves for the ghaut and waterfall. 



As soon as the Cunnamagets out of the valley in which we 

 had slept the night before, the path becomes more defined 

 as a timber road, and begins to rise over a country of slates, 

 when the sudden thinning-out and almost complete disap- 

 pearance of the thicker jungle is surprising. Except in the 

 bottoms of the ravines, and over a ridge or two of quartzite 

 beds which are intercalated among the slates, the hills were 

 most bare and arid looking. There was not even the rich crop 

 of hay, but only a very poor and thin dried grass, scarcely 

 concealing the rocky ground. The path now turned south- 

 wards, in order to get down a ravine, and so through a 

 stream -gorge (where there was good water) into an extensive 

 open flat valley, surrounded on all sides by low hills, except to 

 the east-north-east, whence it opened out towards Aukiveed- 



From this open bit of plain, we turned northwards and. 



