Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India.

CHAPTER XXI.

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MALABAR.

Calicut--Houses and gardens--Population of Malabar--Namburi Brahmins --Nairs--Tiars--Slaves--Moplahs--Assessment of rice-fields, of gardens, of dry crops--Other taxes--Voyage up the Beypoor river --The Conolly teak plantations--Wundoor--Backwood cultivation --Sholacul--Sispara ghaut--Blackwood--Scenery--Sispara--View of the Nellemboor valley--Avalanche--Arrival at Ootacamund 341