bag very many. Reached the boats about 12 o'clock. In the evening took the dogs out and shot several chickore and black partridge.

14th. Started for Koddje, an uninhabited factory close to the foot of the hills.

The dak road runs through one of the most extensive jungles imaginable, the abode of the rhinoceros and tiger. Saw a herd of deer, a few pigs and peacocks, and came on the remains of a buffalo.

When within two miles of the factory I was directed by the descent and hovering of vultures to a deep jungle by the side of a stagnant nullah, and beating it up, found a fresh carcase of a buffalo.

The elephant gave notice of something on foot, passed the carcase and discovered the footmarks of a large tiger. After beating about for some quarter of an hour I noticed some tall grass moving, and soon getting a peep at his majesty I fired. The shot told, but did not stop him. Nevertheless I felt confident he was well hit. After a little further pursuit we found ourselves in his immediate proximity. When we perceived him he was down on his side, and evidently severely wounded.

Having halted and sketched him from the back of my pad elephant, and feeling sure he was utterly disabled, I dismounted and treated him as I loved him.

Slept at the factory. Had breakfast under a tree, after which I paid a visit to Mr. Darget, by whom I was entertained with true hospitality.

His bungalow is situated on a projecting hill close to the river. Sent back Bateman's elephant and took to boat again. Went ashore very soon after sunrise. The call of the chickore was quite ridiculous, nothing else but "chuckle chuckle," from apparently hundreds of birds. The dogs stood them well, but the jungle was excessively deep, even close to the river.

Killed six and a half brace-had some excellent points-scent evidently a warm one.

Came upon the marks of a tiger, quite fresh, so that he must have very recently passed from the jungle to the river. Apprehensions not pleasant; nevertheless, I beat on, and altogether had most excellent sport, and no undesirable encounter.

Weighed the chickore, and found the cocks 16 and 17 ounces, hens 13 and 14 ounces.

Whilst at Siciree I was told that the jungle fowls came down amongst the tame ones and fed with them, as did also the peacocks and deer.

The hyenas even entered the compound of the bungalow, and several of the proprietor's dogs were severely wounded by them; one had his ribs broken.

Every report agreed that game of all sorts was most abundant there, and I assuredly had the oppor

tunity of confirming the report by my own observation.

At Siciree there was a hill bamboo different to any I had ever seen before. It flowered and produced grain exactly similar to rice both in appearance and taste, but much richer in flavour. After flowering and maturing the seed the plantation dies off.

The natives collected the rice from the trees at Siciree and sold it at one rupee per maund. They say it flowers once in forty years, and in some parts where the species is more common they chronicle events by the occurrence.

15th. Met with nothing of any consequence in the shape of

game.

16th. Reached Patter Gatta where the rocks run to the water's edge. On the extreme point and about half way up is a Hindoo temple of very plain architecture. It is terraced and built close to the live rock, which peeps through the tangled cover in bold horizontal masses. Out of this rock is hollowed a cave where the priest blows his shell, which reverberates through the hills and over the surface of the

waters.

On the right hand entrance to the cave, placed on a parapet, which forms one side of the entrance to it, are different symbols of the superstition of the Hindoos. Towering above, the rock beetles, and the foliage shadows the idols of darkness and error,

which seem as it were to shrink in sleepy obscurity from the brightness and beauty of day. The deep shadows that enveloped the side of the hill on which was situated this retreat of Hindoo idolatry, threw around them an obscurity only relieved by the sharp outlines of the temple and the bold markings of the projecting rocks.

The brahmin was a stout, fat and rather powerful man, and notwithstanding that he was evidently in the enjoyment of the good things of this world he did not hesitate to crave alms.

This point or spur runs to the water's edge, and the communication is cut off from the main bank by a cal which winds round the bottom of the continuous hill.

Came opposite the well-known Colgong rocks, which every person passing up and down the river delineates in their sketch books, writes about in verses, and where they spend a little while in shooting pigeons. These rocks are divided into three but the middle channel is never attempted, there being plenty of river room on each side. In general contour they are conical, and look as if they had been thrown up by a volcano.

ranges,

The rocks are very massive, and the geological formation is argillaceous limestone. The rocks, some twenty feet up from the base, are covered in the interstices by jungle of a rich foliage and colour. Clouds of blue pigeons which inhabit the crevices