BY W. KING, ESQ. 99 



The path now led through continuous green forest, gene- 

 rally thick and full of large trees of all the kinds already 

 detailed ; and when We occasionally ascended a high point 

 to make out our position, there was nothing but this sea of 

 forest-covered hills spread out before us. The Teak and 

 Nullaniudday were often very large ; but wherever they 

 were so, in nearly all cases, the over-reaching Bauhinia was 

 battening on them. Indeed, the way in which we found 

 out that our guide was leading us aright was by coming 

 on an unfortunate teak-tree, which had been remarked by 

 Mr. Thomas, on our previous walk eastward from Manty- 

 conda, as having been so peculiarly split down by this 

 creeper. 



There are three good watering-places on the path through 

 this forest basin, the head- waters of the Nundial stream. The 

 middle one, about 4 \ miles from Mantj^conda, is a large and 

 deep pool of water that, with a little trouble, might be made 



good station for one or two elephants, which might be 

 most effectively used in dragging the large timber up to the 

 western edge of the mountains. It is this difficulty of 

 dragging their timber out, that causes the wood-cutters to 

 divide the large trees into such small pieces. 



Early in the evening, our guide brought us to the garden 

 of Mantyconda, and there, to all intents and purposes, wash- 

 ed his hands of us. He said he could guide us no 

 further ; and from this point, in his eyes, the roads went 

 into the forest and came back again : but we were deter- 

 mined to get at the flowing waters of Brumeshwar, whether 

 there were a road or not, so took him with us. 



Mantyconda to Brumeshwar and Yellagode. 



After a few trials along other paths (when it was amusing 



to see the mixed look of doubt and resignation in Gurrupoo's 



face), we found a fine old road, along which one might 



drive for a mile or so, leading to the very place we wanted 



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