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NEGRAIS-VELANAVGALA TALUK. 259 coal (£16,000); and gunny-bags (£14,000). The exports were chiefly printed or dyed cotton manufactures (£166,000); live stock (£50,000); and ghi (£9000). Negapatam was one of the earliest settlements of the Portuguese on the Coromandel coast. It was taken by the Dutch in 1660, and by the English in 1781. It was the residence of the Collector of Tanjore from the cession of the District to the British by treaty in 1799 until the year 1845, when the head-quarters were removed to Tranquebar, on the acquisition of that place by purchase from Denmark. The population contains a large proportion (nearly 20 per cent.) of Labbais, a Musalman people half Arab half Hindu in origin, who have developed a great capacity for trade. They are a bold, active, and thrifty race, and have established prosperous colonies in Burma and the Straits Settlements, with which countries they carry on a brisk trade. The harbour has a fixed fourth order dioptric white light, on a white tower 79. feet above the sea. Rainfall (1882), 42 inches ; mean temperature in shade, 66° F., rising to 102° F. Negrais.- Island in Bassein District, Lower Burma. See HAING-GYI. Negrais.- Cape in Bassein District, Lower Burma. Lat. 16° 1' 30" N., and long. 9.4° 13' E. Cape Negrais is the south-west promontory of the coast of Bassein. The extreme southern point of that coast is called Thay-gin or Pagoda Point, bearing nearly south-south-east from Cape Negrais, distant 64 miles. Near Pagoda Point is a large rock, with a small pagoda; red cliffs stretch from it towards Cape Negrais. Nekmard.–Fair held annually in Bhawanandpur village, Dinajpur District, Bengal. Lat. 25° 59' N., long. $8° 18' 30" E. It takes its name from a Muhammadan pir or saint, whose tomb is a place of pilgrimage. The fair lasts six or seven days, and is frequented by about 150,000 persons. It is principally a cattle fair; but many varieties of articles are brought for sale, -elephants from Dárjiling, the Bengal tarii, and Assam ; dried fruits, embroidered saddlery, daggers, swords, etc., by Mughals and Afgháns ; blankets, walnuts, ják tails, etc., by the hill tribes ; English piece-goods, brass pots, hookahs, etc. Nelamangala.- Triluk in Bangalore District, Mysore State. Area, 209 square miles, of which 128 square miles are cultivated. Population (1881) 49,844, namely, 24,523 males and 25,321 females. Hindus numbered 46,987; Muhammadans, 2637 ; Christians, 214; and Buddhists, 6. Total revenue (1883), £11,049. Soil—red mould, shallow, and gravelly, dependent upon the rainfall ; dry crops-ragi, ballar, save, and gram ; wet crops—rice, sugar-cane, and a little wheat. In 1884, the túluk contained i criminal court; police circles (thánás), 6; regular police, 51 men ; village watch (chaukidúrs), 129.