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Hooker remarks : &quot; in all my dealings with these people, they 

 proved scrupulously honest.&quot; &quot;Among the pure Santals,&quot; 

 writes Hunter, &quot; crime and criminal officers are unknown ;&quot; 

 while of the Hos, belonging to the same group as the Santals, 

 Dalton says, &quot; a reflection on a man s honesty or veracity 

 may be sufficient to send him to self-destruction.&quot; Shortt 

 testifies that &quot; the Todas, as a body, have never been convicted 

 of heinous crimes of any kind ;&quot; and concerning other tribes 

 of the Shervaroy Hills, he states that &quot;crime of a serious 

 nature is unknown amongst them.&quot; Again of the Jakuns we 

 read that &quot; they are never known to steal anything, not even 

 the most insignificant trifle.&quot; And so of certain natives of 

 Malacca who &quot; are naturally of a commercial tarn,&quot; Jukes 

 writes : &quot; no part of the world is freer from crime than the 

 district of Malacca ;&quot; &quot; a few petty cases of assault, or of 

 disputes about property . . . are all that occur.&quot; 



Thus free from the coercive rule which warlike activities 

 necessitate, and without the sentiment which makes the 

 needful subordination possible thus maintaining their own 

 claims while respecting the like claims of others thus 

 devoid of the vengeful feelings which aggressions without 

 and within the tribe generate ; these peoples, instead of the 

 bloodthirstiness, the cruelty, the selfish trampling upon in 

 feriors, characterizing militant tribes and societies, display, in 

 unusual degrees, the humane sentiments. Insisting on their 

 amiable qualities, Hodgson describes the Bodo and the 

 Dhimals as being &quot; almost entirely free from such as are 

 unamiable.&quot; Eemarking that &quot;while courteous and hos 

 pitable he is firm and free from cringing,&quot; Hunter tells us 

 of the Santal that he thinks &quot; uncharitable men &quot; will suffer 

 after death. Saying that the Lepchas are &quot; ever foremost in 

 the forest or on the bleak mountain, and ever ready to help, 

 to carry, to encamp, collect, or cook,&quot; Hooker adds&quot; they 

 cheer on the traveller by their unostentatious zeal in his 

 service ;&quot; and he also adds that, &quot;a present is divided equally 

 amongst many, without a syllable of discontent or grudging 



