Migratory Tribes of Natives in Central India. 2^ 



and more subject to the influences which rule them at present. 

 The great valleys of the Rhone, of the Aar, of the Reuss, of 

 the Rhine, of the Adda, &c., which roll their waves from hence 

 towards every possible direction, were covered with immense 

 glaciers, and may have presented nearly the same appearance 

 that they now do in very snowy winters, when their depths 

 are filled up, and only a slight depression betrays to the wan- 

 derer the clefts over which he steps with a careless foot. 



On the Migratory Tribes of Natives in Central India. Com- 

 municated by Edward Balfour, Esq., Assistant Surgeon. 

 Communicated by the Author. 



The hills and forests in the centre of India, arc inhabited 

 by people differing widely from the inhabitants of the plains. 

 Their great abode, says Mr Elphinstone, is the Vindya moun- 

 tains, which run east and west from the Ganges to Guzerat, 

 and the broad tract of forest which extends north and south 

 from the neighbourhood of Allahabad, to the latitude of Ma- 

 sulipatam, and with interruptions almost to Cape Comorin. 

 These people have separate names — Paharias, Kols, Gonds, 

 Blieels, Colis, and Colaris ; but in many points they differ from 

 each other, and little has been done to shew that they are the 

 same people. In addition to these races, there are many 

 smaller communities spread throughout India, each witli a 

 distinct name, and speaking a distinct tongue ; leading a mi- 

 gratory life, and resorting only to towns to purchase a fev/ ne- 

 cessaries, they seem the remains of some aboriginal people who 

 had occupied the soil perhaps before any of the nations now 

 possessing it ; and it may not be uninteresting to mention some 

 of the habits of these nomade races. 



THE GOHUR, CALLED BY EUROPEANS AND NATIVES BINJARI OR 



LUMBARI. 



The Binjarries are separated among themselves into three 

 tribes — Chouhone, Rhatore, and Powar. Their original couu- 



