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rtattu) transit. The ill-used tattu I have seen recorded, in 
a manuscript report, in a list of the wild beasts of a District 
in the Madras Presidency. 
At Shimoga the weekly market (shandy) was being held, 
food-grains and vegetables being the main articles for sale. 
Bat the most conspicuous feature were the groups of nomad 
Lumbadis with their picturesque gipsy clothing ornamented 
with embroidery and cowries. Gambling was going on in afar 
corner of the market, natives squatting on the ground and 
getting very excited over the fate of their pice and ^ anna 
pieces. Two kinds of gambling boani were in action. At 
one a common die with numbers on its six faces, and mounted 
so as to form a top, was spun in a metal dish ; and, at the 
other, a ball with numbers marked on facets was spun in a 
dish, the last struggles of the ball befoi-e coming to rest 
producing tremendous excitement. In both cases the 
stakes were deposited on a sheet divided into compart- 
ments, marked with numbers corresponding to those of the 
numbers on the die or ball. 
At Shimoga an extensive manufacture of bangles is 
carried out, and, for a few annas, I purchased a series 
showing the various stages of manufacture from the cover- 
ing of the glass rings' with lac over :i charcoal fire to the 
final ornamentation with tinsel spang-les. Specimens 
were also purchased of household articles made from stea- 
tite soapstone and sandstone in the Shimoga District. 
Similar articles are made from steatite in the Salem and N. 
Arcot Districts. Through the Deputv Commissioner speci- 
mens were purchased, or ordered, of the celebrated sandal- 
woodcarving made by the Grudigars at Sorab aud Sagar in 
the Shimoga District. The carved articles consist of boxes, 
sticks, fans, images of Ganesa aud Kolota Krishna Devam 
' The base of bangles consists, as a rule, of lac instead of glass rings. 
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