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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
535
• worth half a Vir'-Rdya Fanam, or about 3d. At the end of the year CHAPTER
the accompts are settled,- every article having a fixed value ; and x-
the whole that each person has delivered having been estimated at Nov. 27.
this rate,.he receives the balance, if any be due. In Tippoo's govern-
ment, the renter paid annually 30 Canter'-Raya Pagodas, or 61. As. \\d.
,His rent has this year been raised to 150 Pagodas, or 31/. Qs. 8-V/.;
but then he is allowed to take all the ivory that is found where
elephants have died, and which formerly belonged to the govern-
ment. 1 The articles collected on account of the renter are as
follow:
1. Nonaputta; the bark of a Morlnda, which is used as a red dye.
£. Magall Calangu ; the root of anon-descript Cynanchum, which
is a favourite pickle with the natives, and smells exactly
. like bugs.
3. Inji; wild ginger.
4. Munjal; wild turmeric.
5. Mutti palu ; the juice of a tree, which by long keeping con-
cretes into a kind of gum ; both juice and gum are used by
the natives to fumigate their clothes.
6. Cungki-lium; the resin of a non-descript tree, which I have
called ChloroxylonDupada, and which is a kind of frankincense.
7. Shica-gai; the fruit of the Mimosa saponaria, used by the na-
tives to wash the oil out of their hair.
8. Honey and wax. There are here four kinds of honey-bee;
1st. Malanten, a large bee which builds in cavities of rocks,
and forms a large nest. One will produce four Puddles, or
about 3 quarts of honey; and four Polams, or 12TV ounces
of wax. In procuring this there is much trouble, as the bee
stings violently, and builds hi places very difficult of access.
A Bamboo-\a.ddev is let down by means of a rope, from the
summit of the rock, to where the honey is. The Cadar, taking
a fire-brand in his hand, descends by the rope to the ladder,
and, having chased away the bees by means of the fire, he
BggS!
MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
535
• worth half a Vir'-Rdya Fanam, or about 3d. At the end of the year CHAPTER
the accompts are settled,- every article having a fixed value ; and x-
the whole that each person has delivered having been estimated at Nov. 27.
this rate,.he receives the balance, if any be due. In Tippoo's govern-
ment, the renter paid annually 30 Canter'-Raya Pagodas, or 61. As. \\d.
,His rent has this year been raised to 150 Pagodas, or 31/. Qs. 8-V/.;
but then he is allowed to take all the ivory that is found where
elephants have died, and which formerly belonged to the govern-
ment. 1 The articles collected on account of the renter are as
follow:
1. Nonaputta; the bark of a Morlnda, which is used as a red dye.
£. Magall Calangu ; the root of anon-descript Cynanchum, which
is a favourite pickle with the natives, and smells exactly
. like bugs.
3. Inji; wild ginger.
4. Munjal; wild turmeric.
5. Mutti palu ; the juice of a tree, which by long keeping con-
cretes into a kind of gum ; both juice and gum are used by
the natives to fumigate their clothes.
6. Cungki-lium; the resin of a non-descript tree, which I have
called ChloroxylonDupada, and which is a kind of frankincense.
7. Shica-gai; the fruit of the Mimosa saponaria, used by the na-
tives to wash the oil out of their hair.
8. Honey and wax. There are here four kinds of honey-bee;
1st. Malanten, a large bee which builds in cavities of rocks,
and forms a large nest. One will produce four Puddles, or
about 3 quarts of honey; and four Polams, or 12TV ounces
of wax. In procuring this there is much trouble, as the bee
stings violently, and builds hi places very difficult of access.
A Bamboo-\a.ddev is let down by means of a rope, from the
summit of the rock, to where the honey is. The Cadar, taking
a fire-brand in his hand, descends by the rope to the ladder,
and, having chased away the bees by means of the fire, he