CHAPTER XII. 
The climate of Anjengo not agreeing with my constitution, 
and the situation I held affording no emolument equivalent to the 
sacrifice of my friends and a delightful society at Bombay, at the 
expiration of the year I obtained permission to return there, and 
wait for some other appointment. 
During my residence at Anjengo, I endeavoured to acquire a 
topographical knowledge of that part of Malabar; and the man- 
ners and customs of the natives of Travencore: its natural history 
opens a very ample field for investigation, and the inhabitants dif- 
fer in many respects from the northern Hindoos. 
The sandy soil on the sea coast is planted with extensive 
woods of cocoa nuts; beyond the river are fruitful fields of rice, 
natchnee, and other grain ; large plantations of pepper and groves of 
cassia; which add a delicious fragrance to the morning breeze. 
Although not partial to Anjengo as a residence, I never made 
a distant excursion without being charmed with the beauty of the 
country, and the variety of its rivers: sometimes we glide through 
narrow devious channels, between steep craggy rocks, with woody 
summits, where the branches uniting over the stream, form a ver~ 
