Natives in Central India, ^ 



very poor, living from hand to mouth. The women collect 

 wood in the jungles, to make the charcoal necessary in their 

 husbands' trade : the movement of the forge-bellows is likewise 

 the duty of the women, many of whom assist their husbands 

 by working the sledge-hammer. Their language they terra 

 Taremooki : that spoken by the communities in the Dekhan 

 contains several Mahrattee and Canaree words, a mixture pro- 

 bably resulting from their lengthened sojourn on the border 

 countries of these two nations. 



The richest Taremook my informant has ever seen, was said 

 to be worth ten thousand rupees ; but though some individuals 

 collect a little money, he has never known any one learn to 

 read or write. The dress of this migratory race is like that 

 of other Hindus. Their religion is the Brahminical, Kandoba 

 being the deity to which their worship is chiefly directed. 

 Their marriages are conducted similarly to the customs of the 

 Hindoos, but intoxicating drinks are largely used. They have 

 earned a great name for gallantry, and it is a very usual thing 

 to hear of the rough Taremook levanting with another man''s 

 wife. On the occasion of a birth, they sacrifice in the name 

 of Satwai. They burn the bodies of married people, and lay 

 the ashes by a river's side ; but the unmarried dead are buried, 

 and for three days after the funeral food is carried to the grave, 

 though they draw no augury of the state of the soul of tho 

 deceased from any creature eatmg the food. 



THE KORAWA. 



This migratory people arrange themselves into four divi- 

 sions, tho Bajantri, Teling, Kolla, and Soli Korawas, speaking 

 the same language, but none of them intermarrying or eating 

 with each other. Whence they originally migrated it would 

 be difficult perhaps now to come to a conclusion, nor could it 

 bo correctly ascertained how far they extend. The Bajantri 

 or Gaon ka Korawa, the musical or village Korawa, aro met 

 with in Bejapore, BoUary, Hyderabad, and throughout Oa- 

 nara. Tho men of this people are somewhat more rcjbustly f'>r- 



