Chap. XXXIII. 
MOLGHOY. 
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stock of seed, they had waited till the ground was 
thoroughly drenched, while some people commit 
their grain to the ground at the very setting in of 
the rainy season, and risk the loss of it if the rains 
should delay too long. After we had passed a small 
village called Kerikasama, the forest became very 
thick; and for a whole hour we followed the im- 
mense footprints of an elephant, which had found it 
convenient to keep along the beaten path, to the 
great annoyance of succeeding travellers, who had, in 
consequence, to stumble over the deep holes made by 
the impression of its feet. 
About eleven o'clock we reached the outskirts of 
Molghoy, having passed, half an hour before, a number 
of round holes, about four feet wide and five feet deep, 
made intentionally, just at the spot where the path 
was hemmed in between a deep fiumara to the left 
and uneven ground to the right, in order to keep off a 
sudden hostile attack, particularly of cavaliy, Mol- 
ghoy is the name of a district rather than of a village ; 
as the pagan countries, in general, seem to be in- 
habited, not in distinct villages and towns, where the 
dwellings stand closely together, but in single farms 
and hamlets, or clusters of huts, each of which con- 
tains an entire family, spreading over a wide expanse 
of country, each man's fields lying close around his 
dwelling. The fields, however, of Molghoy had a 
very sad and dismal aspect, although they were shaded 
and beautifully adorned by numerous karage-trees. 
Though the rainy season had long set in, none of these 
