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the ravines into, the pool of the river, where the people obtained their drinking
water. There is also another possible, source of pollution ; it will be remem-
bered that a Bunneah had died of cholera at Konee on the 28th May, and that
the body was thrown into the river. Konee is 10 miles by the river above Kutra-
Belkeria, but it is possible that the body may have floated down ; there are, however,
villages between, which were not attacked till later. This was the first outbreak
on this part of the river, and it is remarkable that later in the season, in, July,
when the epidemic prevailed generally among the villages on the river, Kutra
did not again suffer. It does not appear in the weekly reports after the 13th June.
206. Malla, the next village down the river, distant three miles, was not
attacked till the ,5th July; it then lost 18, out of a population 209. The first case
from Hinnotea, four miles further down, was reported on the 6th ; and 13 died out
,of a population of 350. Gooba, six miles below, was not attacked till the 8th
August, and 6 deaths only, out a population of 930, were reported.
Rujola, a small village among the ravines between the two rivers, with a
population of 160, escaped till the 19th of August, when 4 deaths were reported.
207. Pepuria-Khas, a small town with a population of 1,990, is the bazaar
town for the villages in this neighbourhood ; it lies about a mile from the river,
opposite the ferry at Bhyronghat. The water-supply is derived solely from wells,
of which there is a great number sunk in the alluvial clay, with an average depth
of 35 feet, and having 10 or 12 feet of water. Ten deaths from cholera occurred ;
9 cases and S deaths were reported on the 12th July ; one death on the 14th, and
one on the 18th. I could gain no particulars of the out-break. Of those that
died, the majority were of the better class,—Rajpoot, Lodi, and Kayuth.
At Renae, a large village, one and a half mile from Pepuria, on rich
alluvial soil, with a water-supply derived from a well in good order, 45 feet deep,
and containing 10 feet of water, there was no cholera.
At Oomerria, another village in the same neighbourhood, having the same
condition of water-supply, and at which a weekly bazaar is held, a woman arrived
from Mala, on the Hirun, five miles distant, suffering from cholera, and died. Ño
other case occurred.
208. On the right bank of the river, between Konee and the ferry at Bhyron-
ghat, a distance of fifteen miles, at the base of the Bhanner range, which here
almost overhangs the river, there are four villages, which are approachable only by
the ferry. Cholera broke out in the village at the ferry on the 15th, and 40
died out of a population of 980. On the 1st August the villages of Ponda-
Khoord, and Ponda-Kulan, four miles above the ferry, were attacked, and lost 39
out of a united population of 900. The other two villages are very small ; at Pee-
,puria-Kulan one death occurred on the 3rd August, and at Murha one on
the 15th.
209. The villages on the Nerbndda, while it flows among the trap hills, do
not, as a rule, resort to the river for water ; they are generally at a distance from
the river, and each village has its own surface well or spring. A little above
Goareeghat the river enters the alluvial deposit that forms the bed of its pro-
per valley; the channel, however, is still confined within steep and lofty banks,
which are much intersected by ravines, and there is a wide margin on either bank
of dry waste. The villages along this bank are therefore not numerous, but all
that are within half a mile or more of the river are dependent upon it for water.
As far as the railway bridge the river runs wholly in the Jubbulpore district ;
from the bridge to Sakur, at the junction of the Hirun, it forms the boundary
between the districts, of Jubbulpore and Nursingpore.
From Goareeghat,