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The importation of cotton wool to Bangalore is very great, and CHAPTER 
is carried on entirely by the Pancham Banijigaru. There are two 
kinds of cotton wool; one called red, and another white; which June 22, &c. 
distinction does not arise from any difference in the plants, but 
from the quality of the soil in which they are raised. The white is 
the best; and both are imported clean, and fit for use. It comes 
mostly from the dominions of the Marattahs, and the Nizam ; and is 
brought hither by the merchants from Naragunda, Navalagunda , 
and Savonuru in the Duab; from Jalalu, the district in which Gqjen- 
draghur is situated; and from Hubuli , in which stands Darwara, all 
of which belong to the former : and from Balahari and Advany , 
which belong to the latter power. All the merchants are natives of 
these places, and in the Marattah country are very well protected. 
They sell by wholesale to the traders of Bangalore, who retail it out 
in the town and neighbourhood. A bullock-load of cotton, coining 
from the Marattah country to Bangalore , and worth from 14 to 20 
Ikeri Pagodas, or from 51. 10,?. 3d. to 8/. Is. 8 d. pays in all, of transit 
duties, nearly two Canter’raia Pagodas, or 13s. 5 d. In this neigh- 
bourhood it has been in vain attempted to cultivate cotton. For 
family use a little has been raised ; but the produce has been very 
small. 
A kind of drug merchants at Bangalore, called Gandhaki , trade to Drugs, 
a considerable extent. Some of them are Banijigaru, and others are 
Ladaru, a kind of Mussulmans. They procure the medicinal plants 
he country by means of a set of people called Pacanat Jogalu , 
who have huts in the woods, and, for leave to collect the drugs, pay 
a small rent to the Gaudas of the villages. They bring the drugs 
hither in small caravans of ten or twelve oxen, and sell them to the 
Gandhaki, who retail them. None of them are exported. Small 
traders from the neighbouring towns bring Popli and Muddi barks; 
honey, and wax; Agalasunti, and Hayguntigay, two medicinal 
roots; Myrobalans ; and Dinduga gum; all which they procure from 
the Eriligaru « The whole wax of the country used formerly to be 
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