BIMANA. 5 
Murmis and Haioos; of the Assam Valley Kachari, Mech and Koch. 
The Malays (4. Veptunianus) Tipperah and Chittagong tribes, the 
Burmese and Siamese. 
Now comes the most difficult group to classify—the aborigines of the 
interior, and of the hill ranges of Central India, the Kols, Gonds, Bhils, 
and others which have certain characteristics of the Mongolian, but with 
skins almost as dark as the Negro, and the full eye of the Caucasian. 
The main body of these tribes, which I should feel inclined to classify 
under Fischer's 4. Polynesius, have been divided by Indian ethnologists 
into two large groups—the Kolarians and Dravidians. The former com- 
prise the Juangs, Kharrias, Mundas, Bhumij, Ho or Larka Kols, Santals, 
Birhors, Korwas, Kurs, Kurkus or Muasis, Bhils, Minas, Kulis. The latter 
contains the Oraons, Malers, Paharis of Rajamahal, Gonds and Kands. 
The Cheroos and Kharwars, Parheyas, Kisans, Bhuikers, Boyars, 
Nagbansis, Kaurs, Mars, Bhunyiars, Bendkars form another great group 
apart from the Kolarians and Dravidians, and approximating more to the 
Indian variety of the Japetic class. 
Then there are the extremely low types which one has no hesitation 
in assigning to the lowest form of the Polynesian group, such as the 
Andamanese, the jungle tree-men of Chittagong, Tipperah, and the vast 
forests stretching towards Sambhulpur. 
On these I would now more particularly dwell as points of comparison 
with the rest of the animal kingdom. I have taken but a superficial 
view of the varieties of the higher types of the human race in Jndia, for 
the subject, if thoroughly entered into, would require a volume of no 
ordinary dimensions ; and those who wish to pursue the study further 
should read an able paper by Sir George Campbell in the ‘ Journal of the 
Asiatic Society’ for June 1866 (vol. xxxv. Part II.), Colonel Dalton’s 
‘Ethnology of Bengai,’ the Rev. S. Hislop’s ‘ Memoranda,’ and the 
‘Report of the Central Provinces Ethnological Committee.’ There is as 
yet, however, very little reliable information regarding the wilder forms 
of humanity inhabiting dense forests, where, enjoying apparently complete 
immunity from the deadly malaria that proves fatal to all others, they 
live a life but a few degrees removed from the Quadrumana. 
I have in my book on the Seonee District described the little colonies 
in the heart of the Bison jungles. Clusters of huts imbedded in tangled 
masses of foliage, surrounded by an atmosphere reeking with the effluvia 
of decaying vegetation, where, unheedful of the great outer world beyond 
their sylvan limits, the Gonds pass year after year of uneventful lives. 
In some of these hamlets I was looked upon with positive awe, as 
being the first white man the Laigas had seen. But these simple 
savages rank high in the scale compared with some others, of whom we 
have as yet but imperfect descriptions. 
