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332 GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
are equally unefficacious. Many are almost blinded
by the terrible glare and damp heat of the jungles :
the fetid swamps breed brain fevers as well as
snipe, bisons have horns, and cheetahs claws : so
that such career, though bright enough in its own
way, is generally speaking at least as brief as
it is brilliant.
Before the monsoon sets in, we will " get through,"
as our Irish cousin expressed himself at the Va-
tican, " the sight-seeing" in the neighbourhood of
Ooty.
Maleemund, or, as others write it, Meyni, a fa-
vourite spot for pic-nics, is a Toda village lying
about three miles north of the grand station:
it affords you a pleasant ride through pretty wood-
lands, and a very inferior view. Beyond it is Bil-
licul, a little Berger settlement surrounded by cul-
tivation : here a resident on the hills has built a
bungalow, and the locality is often visited for the
pleasure of contemplating the reeking flats of
Mysore. Striking across country into the See-
goor Pass, you may, if you have any curiosity, in-
spect the Kulhutty Falls, certain cataracts upon a
very diminutive scale indeed. You must see the
Pykarry river, a deep and irregular stream flowing
are equally unefficacious. Many are almost blinded
by the terrible glare and damp heat of the jungles :
the fetid swamps breed brain fevers as well as
snipe, bisons have horns, and cheetahs claws : so
that such career, though bright enough in its own
way, is generally speaking at least as brief as
it is brilliant.
Before the monsoon sets in, we will " get through,"
as our Irish cousin expressed himself at the Va-
tican, " the sight-seeing" in the neighbourhood of
Ooty.
Maleemund, or, as others write it, Meyni, a fa-
vourite spot for pic-nics, is a Toda village lying
about three miles north of the grand station:
it affords you a pleasant ride through pretty wood-
lands, and a very inferior view. Beyond it is Bil-
licul, a little Berger settlement surrounded by cul-
tivation : here a resident on the hills has built a
bungalow, and the locality is often visited for the
pleasure of contemplating the reeking flats of
Mysore. Striking across country into the See-
goor Pass, you may, if you have any curiosity, in-
spect the Kulhutty Falls, certain cataracts upon a
very diminutive scale indeed. You must see the
Pykarry river, a deep and irregular stream flowing