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go entirely by the ftrength of its fmell. During Tippoo ’s government none of thefandal-wood came to this market: he either did not allow it to be cut, or elfe ftoredup in his forts whatever was felled.
Black blankets, or cumlies, are here a considerable article of commerce; andfome merchants of the Carubaru caft, trade in nothing elfe. They are broughtchiefly from Gori Bideruru in the Madhu-giri taluc, and alfo from Sira, Chatrakal,and Balahari. Thefe laft are by much the beft ; next to them are thofe fromChatrakal. They vary in price from four fanams, or 2s. 9^. to 15 pagodas, or3I. 3s. 6*d. By far the greater part are under the value of one pagoda, or 6s. 8jd.They are chiefly retailed here for country ufe.
The importation of cotton wool to Bangalore is very great, and is carried onentirely by the Pancham Banijigaru. There are two kinds of cotton wool; onecalled red, and another white; which diftindtion does not arife from any differencein the plants, but from the quality of the foil in which they are raifed. The whiteis the beft; and both are imported clean, and fit for ufe. It comes moftlv fromthe dominions of the Marattahs, and the Nizam; and is brought hither by the mer-chants from Naragunda, Navalagunda, and Savonuru in the Duab; from Jalalu, thediftridt in which Gajendraghur is Situated; and from Hubuli, in which Hands Dar-wara, all of which belong to the former: and from Balahari and Advany, whichbelong to the latter power. All the merchants are natives of thefe places, and inthe Marattah country are very well protected. They fell by wholefale to the tradersof Bangalore , who retail it out in the town and neighbourhood. A bullock-load ofcotton, coming from the Marattah country' to Bangalore , and worth from 14 to 20Ikeri pagodas, or from 5I. 10s. 3d. to 81. is. 8d. pays in all, of tranfit duties, nearlytwo canter’raia pagodas, or 13s. 5d. In this neighbourhood it has been in vain at-tempted to cultivate cotton. For family ufe a little has been raifed 5 but the producehas been very fmall.
A kind of drug merchants at Bangalore , called gandhaki, trade to a confiderableextent. Some of them are Banijigaru, and others are Ladaru, a kind of Mufiulmans.They procure the medicinal plants of the country by means of a fet of people calledPacanat Jogalu, who have huts in the woods, and, for leave to colled: the drugs, paya fmall rent to the gaudas of the villages. They bring the drugs hither in fmallcaravans of ten or twelve oxen, and fell them to the gandhaki, who retail them.None of them are exported. Small traders from the neighbouring towns bring popliand muddi barks; honey, and wax; agalafunti, and hayguntigay, two medicinalroots; myrobalans; and Dinduga gum; all which they procure from the Efiligaru.The whole wax of the country ufed formerly to be brought hither : but now a greatpart of it is carried diredly to the Lower Carnatic. The quantity annually procureddoes not exceed a hundred maunds, or about 2,425 pounds. The Dinduga gummight be had to the extent of two or three hundred maunds, or from 4,850 lbs.to 7,275 lbs. a year, if money were advanced for it at the rate of from 8 to j 2fanams a maund, or from il. 3s. 4d. to il. 15s. id. the hundred weight. At prefenta fmall quantity only is colledted for the ufe of the filk-weavers. The cotton-mer-chants from the Duab of the Kriflma fupply the gandhaki with cut, or terra japonica 4with afafoetida, mailtuta and maiful, two fubftances uled by the natives in cleaningtheir teeth; cofta, a medicine; loduchica, a dye; fulphur, alum, borax, andopium. From the gandhaki thefe merchants purchafe muddi and popli dyes,, lac,,and wax. The lac is partly bought from the Woddar, who collect it in the neigh-bourhood ; and partly from traders, that bring it from Madhu-giri, Godagiri, Banir-
gutta,