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which was occupied by iron smelters, and surrounded by a little CHAPTER 
cultivated land. The country round Tamri-caray is veil cleared, 
and seems to have suffered little from the wars. June 2a 
It is said, that in the great forests round Savana-durga, there is a Two wild ani- 
small animal called the Shin-Nai , or red dog, which fastens itself aogW. 
by surprise on the neck of the tiger, and kills him. On this ac- 
count the tiger is not so common in these large forests, as in the 
smaller woods. The Shin-Nai is quite distinct from the wild dog, 
which is said to be very common here, to grow to a large size, and 
to be very destructive to sheep. By this wild dog the natives pro- 
bably mean the wolf. I have seen native drawings of the Shin-Nai , 
which appear to represent an animal not yet described. 
21st June . — I went from Taveri-caray 'to Bangalore . Much of the June 21. 
country is covered with bushes, and consists of a very poor soil. 
The greater part of the arable lands near Bangalore are cultivated : 
but at some distance from it many fields are waste, owing to a want 
of people. 
The reservoirs are numerous, but small ; many of them are de- Irrigation, 
signed for supplying cattle with drink, and not for cultivation, and 
are of the kind called Ciittay. The tank formed, like those in Bengal, 
by digging a square cavity into the ground, is here called Gunta. 
Above the Ghats, however, this manner of procuring water is not 
very common ; but the most usual manner of coming at a spring is 
by digging a large square pit with sides almost perpendicular, and 
called Boudy. The workmen dig till they find the water, which is 
often twenty or thirty feet from the surface. Afterwards a narrow 
passage, with a gentle slope, is cut in one of the sides, and a stair 
is formed in it, by which the women descend to bring up the water 
in earthen pots. It is from these wells, chiefly, that water is drawn by 
the Cctpily, or leather bag wrought by two bullocks descending on an 
inclined plane. When applied to this use, the Boudy is called Capily 
Bamy . If the water rise so near the surface, that it can be thrown 
out, to irrigate the land, by two men swinging a basket fixed to 
