From England to the Antipodes & India - 1846 to 1902: With Startling ...
From England to the Antipodes & India - 1846 to 1902: With Startling ...
Isaac Tyrrell
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How they origi- nally came on the spot I was unable to ascertain. The Streeracottah island vhicb. we had to p^ befor e entering the iti Pulfcat lake is, as is not genefiilly known, inhabited by a diminutive race of natives, very small in stature atid physicjtie* Dr. Short, well known in Madras in eonnectioti with hi^ tcseatches In snake poisns, was much interested ethnologicatlljr hi these peot)l^, and recorded the fact that a full grown maideti weighed only thirty-six pounds. At certain gea^Of...lS Ofthe year When the Pulicdt lak6 is always full of fish, the mullet during the night will jump Ifitd open boats, more especially ii there are lights in them, and on the night we crossed, these fish k^pt jumping into the boats in numbers, a hundred and thirty-two being thus caught in the first boat, while in the one I was in eighty-two of them were captured. It was amusing to watch the constables scrambling for ^he fish as they jumped into the boats and aligtited on the cash chests. Some of these fish were over two pounds in weight and one of the largest I caught as I was lying on my camp cot in the boat, and I had it served up for my breakfast next n^orning at Eanur* On arriving at Madras, the treasure was handed over to the authorities of the Madras Banicand a receipt for the amount obtained* In 1866, Major Andrew Bahner^ the District Superintendent^ appointed me In^^tor of the Sook>orpett division, and Supervising Inspector of the V^nkatagiri division which was in charge of a native Inspector, subject however to my conttoL In my cs4>acity as Sup^rvrising Inspector, I had occasion to visit Venkatagiri frequently, and was given by the Rajah an old bungalow near the tank bank lo live^ itt dtiring my visits.
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