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a present of a black shawl. The market here also 
being badly provided, I had great difficulty in ob- 
taining a sufficient supply of corn for my horse. 
We had scarcely left the narrow lanes of the town 
with its extraordinary exuberance of vegetation, 
when the rain set in, so that we were wet both from 
above and below, the path either leading through 
tall crops, or through pools of stagnant water. The 
path further on, according to the information which 
we collected from people whom we met on the 
road, being entirely inundated, when we reached that 
western branch of the f^ddama near the village of 
Badda-badda, we followed a more southerly direction 
to the large open village K6chi, where we intended 
passing the night. But it was with the utmost dif- 
ficulty that we obtained lodgings, nor did we ex- 
perience the least sign of hospitality, and while an 
immense quantity of rain fell outside, I was greatly 
tormented by the number of mosquitoes, which were 
insufficiently excluded from my hut by a stiff piece 
of leather hung before the door. 
Thursday, -^^ soon as the weather allowed us we 
August 17th. ^Qft this inhospitable village, and soon 
afterwards entered forest, to which succeeded fine 
crops of corn. Four miles beyond Kochi, we had to 
cross a large faddama full of water, and intersected in 
the middle by a running stream, bordered by great 
numbers of water lilies, and giving us altogether a 
fair idea of the difficulties attending travelling 
through this country at the present season of the 
