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A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH 
CHAPTER 
VI. 
Aug. I — 6. 
Commerce 
With the Ni- 
zam’s domi- 
nions. 
Commerce 
with the 
Marattah 
country. 
Commerce 
with Nagara, 
At present the trade with the Nizam's country is not safe ; and 
the merchants, and other inhabitants, are rapidly emigrating into 
the Raja’s dominions. The places, with which there was formerly 
an intercourse here, were Rdya-durga, Kalyana-durga, Ralahari , 
Gutti , R ajawn lly - A dcany, Tadepatry, Pamudi , Dharmawara , Nilomu- 
dodi , Penu-conda , Indu-pura , Modogusheria , Nedavena-hully , Cundu - 
rupi, Ratna-giri , Cumpuli, Hirialu , Cuddapa , and Condacundi . The 
goods brought from thence are silk cloths, cotton cloths, plain and 
with silk borders, chintses, and coarse cotton cloths, all the manu- 
factures of these places. The colours being better fixed, they sell 
higher than the goods of Bangalore . The returns from Sira are 
dried coco-nut kernels or Copra , Betel-nut , Jagory, Popli bark, Ztfc, 
and steel the manufacture of this neighbourhood. These are the 
staple articles ; but occasionally oxen, buffaloes, boiled butter, or 
Ghee , oil, and tobacco have been sent. The merchants whom I here 
assembled at first asserted, that one half of the returns from hence 
were made in cash ; but this they afterwards retracted, and alleged 
that the coco-nut kernels sent from hence greatly exceeds in value 
all the goods imported. 
The intercourse with the Marattah country is perfectly undis- 
turbed ; and the places with which it is carried on, are Darwara , 
Hubuli, Gudagu, Lechmeskura-Butcaray , Mulugunda , Catricay , Hum - 
sagara, and Havery. The imports from thence are cotton wool, 
thread white and red, coarse and fine red cotton cloth, white cotton 
cloth with silk borders, dark blue cotton cloth, chints, sackcloth or 
Goni, tent cloth, matrasses, blankets, dates, raisins, almonds, wal- 
nuts, Carthamus flowers or Cossumba, asafoetida, sulphur, and red- 
lead. The exports from Sira are oxen, buffaloes, Popli bark, a root 
called Lavansa, which, I believe, is that of the long pepper, Lac , 
and steel, with of cash. Of this last, however, I am doubtful. 
The imports from the Nagara country to Sira are Betel-nut, black- 
pepper, cardamoms, Lamnga patri a leaf used in medicine, Cabob - 
china (the buds of the Laurus Cassia ), bastard cinnamon (bark of 
