CAMPALY. 
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others, in their palanquins, under the outer fly. In consequence of 
the tents not being sent forward a day before, we were obHged to 
wait there till after breakfast : and indeed with difficulty we pro- 
cured men sufficient to carry them on. 
October 8. —The Aumil of the district came and brought fruit, 
fowls, and kids, which we accepted. It was the middle of the 
day when we set off: we passed through a country like that of 
yesterday : the crops very fine, and nearly ripe. The hills preserve 
their strata perfectly horizontal. We passed several miserable 
wretches hardly alive, and an occasional stench too often informed 
' us of the vicinity of dead bodies. We reached Campaly, a stage of 
twelve miles, by day-light : it is close to the foot of the pass, sur- 
rounded by hills covered with jungle, and has a very fine tank, and 
a neat pagoda. Several small streams were descending from the 
table-land, and a rivulet ran through the village. All ideas of 
pleasure were however banished by the sight of several wretches 
who were too weak to raise themselves up, to receive the charity 
that was offered them. Close to the choultry were bodies in 
every state of decay ; some with their cloaths on, that could not 
have been dead above a day or two ; others with only a small por- 
tion of flesh left on their bones by the vultures and jackals. The 
vale was so small, that the tents could not be pitched at a sufficient 
distance from the effluvia, to prevent its occasionally reaching us. 
October 9.— We set off at half-past five. For a great part of 
the Gaut we were obliged to walk, though it was by far easier 
than the Bessely Gaut, nor was it half its length. The village of 
Candalla being just at the top, we had sent our breakfast to it. 
There is a very large tank, and below it a plain, which exhibited a 
