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A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER some fresh earth is put on the beds. When Betel leafk reared
upon the palms, the garden must be regularly watered and manured,
and on that account becomes more productive. Pepper vines, it is
May 15.
Sandal,
Halforag*
said, have been tried here, but without success. The Brahmam say,
that in the Malayar district they have in vain tried to rear the
Betel-nut palm. How this should have happened I cannot under-
stand, as the climate there very exactly resembles that of Nagara.
Perhaps the Brdhmans have neglected to shelter the young planta-
tions from the setting sun, which in the open country, owing to its
greater coolness, is not requisite. A garden of 300 bearing Arecas
produces ten Maunds of boiled Betel-nut, worth one Bahadury Pagoda
aMaund, or 1/. 17*. %\d. a cwt. To give one Mavnd of prepared Betel
requires 4000 nuts ; so that the average produce, acknowledged by
the proprietors, for each tree of a bearing age, is 133-f- nuts, that are
worth, when boiled, 3i pence, of which one half is paid for rent.
That this may be the amount received by government is very
probable; but few will be inclined to credit that it really exacts
the fair half of the produce.
Sandal-wood trees are planted in the hedges that surround these
gardens. The government has the sole right of cutting and disposing
of this article of commerce ; but the proprietor of the garden
expects for his trouble in rearing it, and with justice receives, a
gratuity. The planted Sandal is here reckoned of as good a quality
as that which has grown spontaneously.
Haltoray is a ruinous mud fort, but it contains some good houses,
which belong to the Sankety Brdhmans. Most of the other houses
are in ruins, and were reduced to that state by the troops of the
Sultan ; who, in their marches to and from Mangalore and Nagara,
frequently passed this way. The discipline of this prince did not
extend to prevent his troops from being rapacious, even in his own
territory. In Hyder's government the people had no reasou to
complain of the army. Haltoray was never a large place. Its
name is thus explained: Hal signifies milk, and Toray a stair
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER some fresh earth is put on the beds. When Betel leafk reared
upon the palms, the garden must be regularly watered and manured,
and on that account becomes more productive. Pepper vines, it is
May 15.
Sandal,
Halforag*
said, have been tried here, but without success. The Brahmam say,
that in the Malayar district they have in vain tried to rear the
Betel-nut palm. How this should have happened I cannot under-
stand, as the climate there very exactly resembles that of Nagara.
Perhaps the Brdhmans have neglected to shelter the young planta-
tions from the setting sun, which in the open country, owing to its
greater coolness, is not requisite. A garden of 300 bearing Arecas
produces ten Maunds of boiled Betel-nut, worth one Bahadury Pagoda
aMaund, or 1/. 17*. %\d. a cwt. To give one Mavnd of prepared Betel
requires 4000 nuts ; so that the average produce, acknowledged by
the proprietors, for each tree of a bearing age, is 133-f- nuts, that are
worth, when boiled, 3i pence, of which one half is paid for rent.
That this may be the amount received by government is very
probable; but few will be inclined to credit that it really exacts
the fair half of the produce.
Sandal-wood trees are planted in the hedges that surround these
gardens. The government has the sole right of cutting and disposing
of this article of commerce ; but the proprietor of the garden
expects for his trouble in rearing it, and with justice receives, a
gratuity. The planted Sandal is here reckoned of as good a quality
as that which has grown spontaneously.
Haltoray is a ruinous mud fort, but it contains some good houses,
which belong to the Sankety Brdhmans. Most of the other houses
are in ruins, and were reduced to that state by the troops of the
Sultan ; who, in their marches to and from Mangalore and Nagara,
frequently passed this way. The discipline of this prince did not
extend to prevent his troops from being rapacious, even in his own
territory. In Hyder's government the people had no reasou to
complain of the army. Haltoray was never a large place. Its
name is thus explained: Hal signifies milk, and Toray a stair