July 1792:"The waterfall at Courtallum, called Tancanche....is accounted by the Hindoos as a place of peculiar sanctity". Pilgrims used to throw food into the water, and when John Robinson, one of the first British surveyors, mapped the area in 1857, he could observe that" the fishes at this place are so tame as to eat out of one's hand when rice is given them"