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flogged until he gave his consent. A loss of cast, of course, en- CHAPTER
sued; but the husband commonly fled out of Tippoo's dominions, \J^y*+j
leaving his wife behind, to want, ,or prostitution. On going to
another place, and turning away his unclean wife, he could get an
absolution from his Guru> with permission to marry again.
The hedges here, like those which I saw yesterday, are very bad Fences.
fences, and are made of the Euphorbium antlquorum. When the
ground is sown, the farmers fill up the gaps with thorns cut from
the Mimosa indica of Lamarck. This tree is allowed to grow pro-
miscuously through the fields, and its branches are lopped off for
fewel, and for repairing the fences. Its shade does not injure the
crops, and its timber is valuable for making ploughs, and other
instruments of agriculture.
Mundium is a poor village, fortified by a mud wall that has been Mmdium.
rebuilt since the restoration of the Rdja's government. It was for-
merly an Agrariim, or village bestowed in charity on the Brahmans*
They were deprived of it by Tippoo, when he annexed to the Circar
or public, all the property of that kind.
In the evening a flight of locusts passed over the town. It ex- Locusts.
tended in length probably about three miles ; its width was about
a hundred yards, and its height fifty feet. The insects passed from
west to east in the direction of the wind, at the rate of six or seven
miles an hour. The whole ground, and every tree and bush, was
covered with them; but each individual halted for a very short
time on any one spot. They went in a very close body, and left
behind them very few stragglers. In an hour after the flock had
passed, few were to be discovered in the neighbourhood of the
town. The stragglers from the grand body did not extend above
a hundred yards on each side of it, and were perhaps not more
than one to the cubic foot. ' In the middle of the flock four times ;
that number must be allowed to the same space. I could not perceive,
that in their passage they did the smallest damage to any vegetable ;
but I was informed, that last year a flock passed, when the crop ■
Vol. I. fc I
ePssassses*
i m
MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
57
flogged until he gave his consent. A loss of cast, of course, en- CHAPTER
sued; but the husband commonly fled out of Tippoo's dominions, \J^y*+j
leaving his wife behind, to want, ,or prostitution. On going to
another place, and turning away his unclean wife, he could get an
absolution from his Guru> with permission to marry again.
The hedges here, like those which I saw yesterday, are very bad Fences.
fences, and are made of the Euphorbium antlquorum. When the
ground is sown, the farmers fill up the gaps with thorns cut from
the Mimosa indica of Lamarck. This tree is allowed to grow pro-
miscuously through the fields, and its branches are lopped off for
fewel, and for repairing the fences. Its shade does not injure the
crops, and its timber is valuable for making ploughs, and other
instruments of agriculture.
Mundium is a poor village, fortified by a mud wall that has been Mmdium.
rebuilt since the restoration of the Rdja's government. It was for-
merly an Agrariim, or village bestowed in charity on the Brahmans*
They were deprived of it by Tippoo, when he annexed to the Circar
or public, all the property of that kind.
In the evening a flight of locusts passed over the town. It ex- Locusts.
tended in length probably about three miles ; its width was about
a hundred yards, and its height fifty feet. The insects passed from
west to east in the direction of the wind, at the rate of six or seven
miles an hour. The whole ground, and every tree and bush, was
covered with them; but each individual halted for a very short
time on any one spot. They went in a very close body, and left
behind them very few stragglers. In an hour after the flock had
passed, few were to be discovered in the neighbourhood of the
town. The stragglers from the grand body did not extend above
a hundred yards on each side of it, and were perhaps not more
than one to the cubic foot. ' In the middle of the flock four times ;
that number must be allowed to the same space. I could not perceive,
that in their passage they did the smallest damage to any vegetable ;
but I was informed, that last year a flock passed, when the crop ■
Vol. I. fc I