bad stench which is carried to a very great distance over the 

 town; it is a wonder how the Municipality tolerates this nuisance. 

 There is no fish-curing yard in this neighbourhood as most of the 

 fish is sold as fresh to meet the local demand and the rest cured 

 with bazaar salt. Large quantities of Vanamattalu (Bombay duck) 

 as well as prawns are caught here. The people are fairly well off 

 but there are no literates among them and drinking is very common. 

 The Pallees confine themselves to fishing but Vadas and Jalaris 

 work in the cargo boats in addition to fishing. 



CORINGA. 



This village adjoins Tallarevu and the place was once noted 

 as an important ship-building centre, and for supplying navigators 

 and sailors who manned the vessels trading in the Bay of Bengal 

 and neighbouring parts. The ship-building industry is still 

 carried on on a small scale but owing to the silting up of the bar 

 only vessels drawing less than eight feet of water can be built 

 here, the ship-building yards being situated on the river about ten 

 miles from its mouth. The seafaring people are Pallees, Vadas 

 and Marakans. Pallees are those who are engaged in fishing and 

 Marakans in boat-building and navigation. These people were 

 very prosperous years ago when the place had a flourishing trade, 

 but now they are in a poor condition. Some of them emigrate to 

 Burma where they work as lascars in boats. One of this community 

 who was an enterprising man, emigrated to Rangoon and made a 

 large fortune by engaging in the shipping business, and when he 

 died recently left several lakhs of rupees in trust for charitable 

 work besides a large fortune to his kith and kin. There are very 

 few literates among them and intemperance is also common. 

 Fishing is mostly confined to the creeks and the river, and the sea 

 is some ten miles away from the village. The curers are Vadas 

 and Pallees who employ no hired labour and are not financed by 

 capitalists. 



MOGALTURU. 



Some of the curers are fishermen themselves and cure and sell 

 their catches on their own account. Other curers advance money 

 to fishermen of the neighbouring villages and purchase and cure 

 their fish. Some of the curers borrow money from sowcars at 10 

 per cent interest and advance it to the fishermen deducting the 

 amount from time to time from the value of the fish supplied by 

 them. No hired labour is used. 



SORLAGUNDI. 



The fishermen of this locality have no proper kind of nets for 

 catching large fish and they prefer catching prawns which they 

 themselves cure. 



NIZAMPATAM. 



There are about 150 houses with a population of about 1,000 who 

 are all Pallees by caste. They are very poor depending mostly 

 on the fishing which they carry on in the creeks and a few of them 

 on cultivation. Before the introduction of the East Coast Railway 



