CHAPTER VII. 



A VISIT TO THE HAIGAHS. 



ABOUT twenty miles from Belikeri, 

 among the lower slopes of the hills, and 

 in a region where the forest gives place 

 here and there to open grassy hills, 

 were a cluster of villages inhabited by 

 Haigah Brahmins, a race seldom to be 

 met with in Canara, and of whom I 

 have never heard elsewhere. These are 

 the only Brahmins who undertake any 

 kind of manual labour, and even with 

 them it is limited to the cultivation of 



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