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

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