Karwar was the headquarter of the Kannara district in the southern portion of the Bombay Presidency. Satyendranath was posted there as a judge.The little harbour, ringed round with the Malaya hills. Its crescent shaped beach throws out its arms to the shoreless open sea like the very image of an eager striving to embrace the infinite. The edge of the broad sandy beach was fringed with a forest of casuarinas, broken at one end by the "Kala nadi" or Kali river into the sea after passing through a gorge flanked by rows of hills on either side. In one moonlit evening Rabindranath and others went up this river in a little boat and stopped at one of Shivaji's old hill forts. They sat on a spot where moonbeams fell glancing off the top of the outer enclosure, and there ate the food they had brought with them.The night brooded over the motionless hills and forests, and on the silent flowing stream of this little Kalanadi throwing over all its moonlight spell. It took a good time to reach the mouth of the river. The deep silence of this illimitable whiteness they walked along with their shadows , without a word. The sleep came over their eyes when they reached home..
Shivaji's Pratapgad Fort
