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AJSTJENGO IN TRAVANCORE 317 the Company's ship, the Duke of Montrose, waiting for a cargo of pepper. On the 1st of April went on shore at daylight, and returned on board in the evening. Anjengo is a small fort and English residency, the first that you arrive at upon the Malabar coast from Cape Comorin; the inhabitants are Malabars and native A RUINED SHRINE AT POLLONARUA IN CEYLON. Portuguese, mixed. It is reported to be one of the first places in India for intelligence, and the English have received great service from it in that respect dur- ing the late war; it would be still more advantageous if the road to Europe by way of Suez was open, but that has been for some time shut up, on account of some unhappy differences. At Anjengo there is a post to several parts of India; this is but lately established. On the 2d of April, sailed; 6th, saw a ship at anchor in Cochin roads, which we could not enter, being driven