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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
353
this trade is at a very low ebb; parties of the Marattah troops CHAPTER
seizing on whatever they meet. As these are not robbers, but per- v^^^y
sons regularly employed by government, the custom-house is not APril ll-
held answerable for their depredations.
From this it would appear, that the trade of Davana-giri chiefly
consists in exchanging the produce of one neighbouring country,
for those of another. The only articles of export produced in the
neighbourhood are Cumlies, Jagory (inspissated juice of sugar cane),
and Callay (Cicer arietinum).
April 12th.—To-day I was prevented from advancing by no less April 12.
than seven of my people having been seized with the fever in the
eourse of the night, and from its being impossible, without some
delay, to provide means for their being carried. Fevers have of
late been very prevalent among my servants, although the country
is perfectly dry and clear. The weather is now very hot in the day-
time, with strong irregular blasts of hot wind, which often comes in
whirls. The nights are tolerably cool. Early this morning we had
a very heavy rain, with much thunder, but little wind.
As I was detained here, in order to save time I sent for the prin- Sheep,
cipal sheep-breeders in the neighbourhood, and obtained from
them the following account. Throughout the principality, and in
the neighbouring country of Hara-punya-hully, which belongs to
the Company, sheep are an object of great importance, and are of
the kind called Ciiri in the language of Karnata. They are kept by
two casts, the Curubaru, and Goalaru. A man of either cast, who
possesses a flock of sheep, is by the Mussulmans called a Donigar.
The Curubaru are of two kinds; those properly so called, and those
named Handy or Cumly Curubaru. The Curubaru proper, and the
Gcalaru, are sometimes cultivators, and possess the largest flocks;
but they never make blankets. The Handy Curubas abstain entirely
from cultivation, and employ themselves in tending their flocks, and
manufacturing the wool. The flocks kept by the two former casts
contain from 30 to 300 breeding ewes; those of the Handy Curubas
MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
353
this trade is at a very low ebb; parties of the Marattah troops CHAPTER
seizing on whatever they meet. As these are not robbers, but per- v^^^y
sons regularly employed by government, the custom-house is not APril ll-
held answerable for their depredations.
From this it would appear, that the trade of Davana-giri chiefly
consists in exchanging the produce of one neighbouring country,
for those of another. The only articles of export produced in the
neighbourhood are Cumlies, Jagory (inspissated juice of sugar cane),
and Callay (Cicer arietinum).
April 12th.—To-day I was prevented from advancing by no less April 12.
than seven of my people having been seized with the fever in the
eourse of the night, and from its being impossible, without some
delay, to provide means for their being carried. Fevers have of
late been very prevalent among my servants, although the country
is perfectly dry and clear. The weather is now very hot in the day-
time, with strong irregular blasts of hot wind, which often comes in
whirls. The nights are tolerably cool. Early this morning we had
a very heavy rain, with much thunder, but little wind.
As I was detained here, in order to save time I sent for the prin- Sheep,
cipal sheep-breeders in the neighbourhood, and obtained from
them the following account. Throughout the principality, and in
the neighbouring country of Hara-punya-hully, which belongs to
the Company, sheep are an object of great importance, and are of
the kind called Ciiri in the language of Karnata. They are kept by
two casts, the Curubaru, and Goalaru. A man of either cast, who
possesses a flock of sheep, is by the Mussulmans called a Donigar.
The Curubaru are of two kinds; those properly so called, and those
named Handy or Cumly Curubaru. The Curubaru proper, and the
Gcalaru, are sometimes cultivators, and possess the largest flocks;
but they never make blankets. The Handy Curubas abstain entirely
from cultivation, and employ themselves in tending their flocks, and
manufacturing the wool. The flocks kept by the two former casts
contain from 30 to 300 breeding ewes; those of the Handy Curubas