07 Dec




















" This Pass has never heretofore been used, except descend the Ghaut on the forenoon of the 21st. taking "Lieutenant Le Hardy and I, endeavoured to the Ghaut, by small leeches, which are very numerous Beypoor river, and in the direct road to Calicut. difficult and tedious, not passable for horses, and after We expected to have nearly reached the bottom of jungle, and being much incommoded, after descending benighted. I sent on a Havildar, (who had learned to the perambulator with us, and a party of pioneers with " The party took three days to reach Mungaree, the actual Ghaut. We found the road most steep, hatchets and axes, to clear the obstructed passages. having had to cut their way through many parts of the remote situation made it well adapted for the carrying elephants and impracticable forests, which with its use the perambulator,) with pioneers and guides, and 128 APPENDIX. gave him orders to push on till he reached Mungeree in the low country, a large village not far from the by bands of smugglers : they found it guarded by at the foot of the hills. They returned withut any accident or misfortune, to the top of the Ghaut, and on in secrecy of their unlawful trade. " It is situated at the south-western extremity of descending for two miles, we returned, to avoid being the Koondahs.

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