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 <nclxvii filled there, the detailed account whereof is mentioned in the Kyfiyat. Waited at Kumbhakonam to get the account of Nemi Jswar Tirthankar of the Jainas and to procure Coins, &c. and on the 16ih I wrote a letter to my Master and dis- patched it to Madras, I also wrote a letter to Lieutenant Sim to Karacal. I left Kumbhakonam and went to Tri Bhuvanam and Madhyarjunamvt xoiz tiie particular accounts of those places together with the copies of eight Inscriptions on stone. I then wrote a letter to Lieutenant Sim toPondicherry and on the 19th at noon I received a letter from Lieutenant Sim inclosing one from my Master, ordering me to come di- rectly to Madras after receiving ten Pagodas from Mr. Thackeray on his account. 20th.— Leaving Teruvadhura I proceeded to May ana* ram to the Collector, who already proceeded to Nagapat- nam after having left the said ten Pagodas with bis head tserishtadar^ with directions to give them to me; ^Assoou as I went to the Cutchery, the Serishtadar delivered the ten Pagodas, after taking a receipt from me in the name of St. John Thackeray, Esq. • 2 1st.— I arrived at Nagapatnam, and shewed all the books, &c. to Mr. Thackeray which I had procured in his District, according to his desire; I afterwards went to the Devalam visited the Stanikulu and asked them to give me the Bouddah Image for sixteen Pagodas, hut they gave me a direct answer saying " That they will never sell the Image not even for thousands/' wheu in the interim of acquainting the Collector with this circumstance, and of •waiting for orders from my Master to purchase the Image, I requested the Head Serishtadar to give strict orders to the Stanikulu not to melt or sell it without the Collector's permission, May 1st and 2nd 1817. — I halted at Nagapatnam to collect Coins at Nagar and Terumalraypatnam and other - places. 3rd.— I wrote a letter to Lieutenant Sim to Pondichery ttnd also to my Master at Madras, went to the Collector