. Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo . nhelping us along. We halted at the bungalow until the next day,when early in the morning the writer mustered a gang of abouttwenty-five coolies to carry my luggage up the steep pass, and wedrove on to the foot of the ghaut. On the northern or Coimbatore side, the Animallais rise verysteeply up from the plains to a height of from two thousand to fivethousand feet, so that it is a steep, steady climb from the level plainup to the summit of the range. Once the summit is reach
. Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo . nhelping us along. We halted at the bungalow until the next day,when early in the morning the writer mustered a gang of abouttwenty-five coolies to carry my luggage up the steep pass, and wedrove on to the foot of the ghaut. On the northern or Coimbatore side, the Animallais rise verysteeply up from the plains to a height of from two thousand to fivethousand feet, so that it is a steep, steady climb from the level plainup to the summit of the range. Once the summit is reached, thehills slope very gradually down into Cochin and Travancore, drain-ing nearly all the water in that direction; so that, while the Coim-batore district may be dry and parched by drought, the nativestates on the opposite side will be well watered, green, and fertile. Upon reaching the foot of the Ardivarum ghaut we dismissedthe carts, and the coolies took my luggage upon theii horse was waiting there for me, sent down by the friend I hadnot yet seen, and leaving my servant to accompany the luggage, I. I o Q^ o O pq H M o Q1^ -^ffl o EH THE ANIMALLAI HILLS. 123 mounted and rode on alone. After a long, hard cHmb up the steepand rocky pass, we reached the summit at an elevation of abouttwo thousand feet, and began to descend the gentle slope. Thenthe road led through lofty bamboo and teak forests, across rockyravines and mountain toiTents, up hill and down, until at last, atthe very end of a long ridge, seven miles from the top of thepass, we emerged from the thick forest, and the forest camp, calledToo-na-cad-a-voo, lay before us. At the veiy point of the ridgestood a dozen bamboo huts and a comfortable thatched bungalow ;a little river swept past them on the left and tumbled down aprecipice, just beyond which rose a lofty cliff of smooth gray rock,with a fringe of feathery bamboos all along its base by the river-side. On the light Iose a conical mountain-peak. Be
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