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Ch. 3: The Glenrock Estate

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THE ROAD TO GLENROCK,                 23
CHAPTER III.
OUR " GLENROCK " ESTATE.
The road to Glenrock—The effects of heavy traffic—The bungalows and outhouses—A cookshop in danger—The captain's home—A splendid outlook—Preparations—A busy scene—A native con­tractor's stupidity—Precautions against delay—Nature of the mining operations at Glenrock—Vestiges of old world mining —A tunnel falls in—Native invocations—Work being done— Auriferous nature of the ground—The tunnels and working described.
The reader will be certain that I paid a visit to Glenrock on the earliest opportunity. Eiding back a distance of two miles over the road by which we had first arrived, a bridle-path to the right is reached, which cuts off a corner and brings one into the road from Pundalur to Glenrock. From this point the bazaar is visible at a considerable distance below and partly sheltered by trees. The road appears to have been much cut up by the constant passage of heavily laden bandies, that for a month or six weeks past have been bringing up the machinery from Calicut. Indeed, on the day of my first visit, and often subsequently, there was quite a block of waggons passing up and down.
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