No. VI.
NEAR ATTOOR, IN THE DINDIGUL DISTRICT.
Attoor is a village in the small district of Dindigul, situated to the south of the kingdom of Mysore. This part of the country, though not entirely uncultivated, has a wild and most romantic character; broken into hill and valley, and covered in many parts with thick woods of great extent, giving shelter to herds of elephants, and numerous other wild animals, that would ofttimes quit their gloomy retreats, and carry havoc and destruction among the plantations of the peasantry, were they not strictly watched by a class of human creatures, whose shaggy forms and ferocious aspect appear sufficient to strike terror into the hearts even of lions and tigers.
Near Attoor, in the Dindigul district.