Tambaram 300 years ago




Heard of  Tigers roaming in Tambaram and Cheese being made in Mudichur  300 years ago. See this Narrative by a Germany Machinery  Schultz in 1726 AD.

"  July 3 1726 :  We rose early and continued our journey  through a country  full of high rocks and overgrown with bushes. The  first village we came to was Tamaram. Here about tigers abound and destroy  men and cattle  every  year. But the heathen  inhabitants go in security each hoping that he shall  escape. Eighteen days ago a tiger had killed and sucked the blood of a man on this very road. Last night he strangled an ox and a hog. To travel by night is to risk one's life. Near Muritshur a boy met us carrying  Cheese for sale to  Madras the  first I had ever seen made by a heathen. Probably  they recently learn to  make it  from  British or French.

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