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tho cow is considered a sacred, and the hog an accursed ani- 

 niLil, and never used as food. No one can read or write. 



They are very rarely allowed to reside inside towns ; but 

 when this liberty is granted them, they pitch their tents or 

 erect grass huts at a distance from the dwellings of respect- 

 able people. The women wear a boddice (choli) open in front, 

 and a sarhi ; the men dress as Hindus usually do. 



This branch bury their dead, and the food that was most 

 liked by the deceased is placed at the head of the grave. Tho 

 most favourable omen of tho state of the departed soul is 

 drawn from its being eaten by a crow ; less auspicious if by a 

 cow ; but if both tho crow and cow decline to eat it, they deem 

 tho dead to have lived a very depraved life, and impose a heavy 

 fine on his relatives for having permitted such evil ways. 



Their religion is the brahminical, and Brahmins assist at all 

 their ceremonies. Their language is nearly similar to that 

 spoken by the Bajantri Korawa, with whom they agree in tho 

 arrangement of tho Korawas into four branches. The other 

 two, in addition to the Bajantri and Teling Korawa, I never 

 met in with. They are called Koonsi Korawa, and the Patra 

 Korawa, or Patr PuUoo. Their manners and habits and mode 

 of lifo are scarcely dissimilar from one another ; all of them 

 can converse in their own language, but they do not eat or 

 marry with an individual of a different branch. 



THE BHATOO. 



This migratory people are known in India by the name 

 of Doomur or Kollati. They are spread over the whole of 

 the great continent ; but though retaining among themselves 

 the name of Bhatoo, they are arranged into several distinct 

 tribes, speaking difierent tongues, and holding no intercourse 

 with each other. One of these tribes occupy the country from 

 Ahmednuggur in the north, to Hurryhur in the south, and lie 

 between Bellary and tho western shores of India. 



The Bhatoo are seldom tall, rarely exceeding live feet two 

 inches in height, and the women attaining a proportionate sizo. 



