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36 EXCURSION.
Having passed a pleasant day, and our researches
having been in some degree satisfactory to us, we pro-
ceeded on the following morning to Nanjanaad, a Burgher
village about eight miles distant from Oatacamund, on
the road to the Mheur mountains, the features of which
now became distinctly visible.
Nanjanaad is a small village, situated on the gentle slope
of a hill which shelters it from the severer blasts. It con-
sists of two streets, or rather rows of houses, with low
verandahs projecting from their fronts, and looking to-
wards the foot of the hill, the eaves of the thatch at the
back nearly touching the acclivity.
The roofs of these dwellings are supported on posts,
and the intermediate spaces filled up with a strong wattle
work, which, overlaid with several coats of plaster, and
well covered in, answers every purpose of a more sub-
stantial wall.
Exclusive of the verandah, each dwelling is divided
into two apartments, the one first entered is sometimes
the more spacious room of the two, while the inner one
is separated from the former by a cross wall, with a
small door in the centre.
Like the habitations of most of the lower classes in
India, these houses are only lighted by the small door-
way which opens into the verandah. In the inner
apartment is the hearth or fire place, where a fire is
Having passed a pleasant day, and our researches
having been in some degree satisfactory to us, we pro-
ceeded on the following morning to Nanjanaad, a Burgher
village about eight miles distant from Oatacamund, on
the road to the Mheur mountains, the features of which
now became distinctly visible.
Nanjanaad is a small village, situated on the gentle slope
of a hill which shelters it from the severer blasts. It con-
sists of two streets, or rather rows of houses, with low
verandahs projecting from their fronts, and looking to-
wards the foot of the hill, the eaves of the thatch at the
back nearly touching the acclivity.
The roofs of these dwellings are supported on posts,
and the intermediate spaces filled up with a strong wattle
work, which, overlaid with several coats of plaster, and
well covered in, answers every purpose of a more sub-
stantial wall.
Exclusive of the verandah, each dwelling is divided
into two apartments, the one first entered is sometimes
the more spacious room of the two, while the inner one
is separated from the former by a cross wall, with a
small door in the centre.
Like the habitations of most of the lower classes in
India, these houses are only lighted by the small door-
way which opens into the verandah. In the inner
apartment is the hearth or fire place, where a fire is