£492.” memsirs of Dr James Anderson. ¢ 
marks those termed Parajadi, another cast, and Teidpu, ace 
tribe, most conspicuously. ‘ 
In the Yalinga countries they are called Coolie tribe, 
Pariar tribe ; and in general bear a proportion of one to 
two, or a third of those that labour in the field for the 
cultivation of the crop, and seventh of the whole inhabi- 
tants of the country. 
{hey are considered hereditary 
slaves to the villages, and their offices, from which they are 
excluded by an uncharitable superstition, to a place called 
the Parcheree, and when treops march through the coun- | 
try are forced out to carry the baggage of the army, 
in the late war, attended with famine and pestilence, these 
men were the first and greatest sufferers. 
A certain ratio is extorted from the country, which is 
more moderate in the pofsefsions of the honourable 
eompeny than elsewhere, amounting to half the whole pro- 
duce; let it be considered, however, that this half is al- 
ways taken without exception, and the reason will appeat 
how no work is begun or carried on, that requires time 
and apparatus to accomplifh,—how most villages are éven 
without a garden,—how none of the palms are to be seen} 
the fruit of which are such desirable objects of food that 
they are imported from other countries,—how so little good 
indigo is made here, where the best indigo plant is a 
weed,—how there is no cotton for exportation, although 
the manufactory of cloth here declines ; the sugar boiler 
and collector can never determine who fhould defray the 
expence of copper vefsels to improve his work ; and>fields 
ef salt are difsolved and wathed away by the rains, because 
government claims a uselefs fhare, and the natives want 
the incitement of a foreign market. 
To improve and extend materials for foreign trade, 
without which these establifhments cannot long exist, a 
certain substantial provision for the labourer fhould first be 
