CCllviii Jfadr, 1 accordingly went and shewed them all the eu- f losities there. S9th and 30th.— Having given every informati- on or Mahabalipur to those Gentlemen, in token of' their satisfaction with niv assiduity they offered me four Star Pagoda* which 1 declined to receive tor tear oi losing my Character with my Master. 31st, — I proceeded by myself to Sahakupam and Dccanairi and procured some coins. 1 then wrote a Letter to my Master and delivered it together with the Coins and the account of the Temple of Cadambadi Dai. into the] hands of the 1 mdel Reddi. — (^ec Let- ter, No. ) , January 1st 1817.— I left Mahabalipur and arrived at Sadras collecting Coins at Kalipakam aud other places. 2d and 3d. — Thence I proceeded to Alampara^ called upon the woman who had formerly discovered some Roman Gold Coins and had promised roe any others she might find : she assured me that she had been searching every morning aud evening with her bags but had not yet got any ; as before when she had found two Ancient Gold Coins, (supposed to be Roman.) on that height, she made no doubt but that she might procure some other Coi:iN before I returned from Pondicherry ; afterwards I assembled about 20 Fishermen, and search- ing in the Eminences found some Copper Coins, Beads, &c &c* 4th. — Thence I went to Kunimodu, where is a large ruined Fort, and obtained some Coins. 5th. — Thence I arrived at Pondicherri and at 2 Gows South of it collected Coins npon different heights between Kummodri aud Pondicherry^ waited on Lieut. Sim and delivered my master's letter to him, who on perusing it ordered me to come to his Tent at the Village of Sorapet, and promised to give me every assistance that 1 would require.
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