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Umloor
In March 1865,
James Thornton traversed an open country consisting of grassy undulating hills
almost devoid of trees. This continued for several miles, and then his party entered
a dense jungle of chiefly bamboo which appeared to cover the hills in every
direction towards the north[157].
The road was in many places obstructed by masses of fallen bamboos, which had to be cut through before they could pass. After a long and fatiguing march, they reached Oomloor, where they found a rest house, built of wood, and a small collection of huts. They halted there for the night and next morning resumed their march, passing through the same interminable jungle, in which hardly any sign of the presence of man were to be seen.
The road was in many places obstructed by masses of fallen bamboos, which had to be cut through before they could pass. After a long and fatiguing march, they reached Oomloor, where they found a rest house, built of wood, and a small collection of huts. They halted there for the night and next morning resumed their march, passing through the same interminable jungle, in which hardly any sign of the presence of man were to be seen.
In 1866, Fitzwilliam Pollock
passed through Oomloor and noted that there were a good many pheasants and
barking-deer to be seen early in the morning along this road. The jungles teemed
with elephants and bison at the commencement of the rains[158].
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