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bow and arrow, a long-handled, formid- 

 able-looking battle-axe, and the quarter- 

 staff. Their Oorijah neighbours possess 

 fire-arms and manufacture gunpowder. 

 West of the Khond highlands lie the 

 wild forests of Bus tar and Kharonde, 

 inhabited by the Gond race. In very 

 many Khond villages two or three 

 families of Gonds are to be found. 

 They are the potters and weavers of the 

 community, and their position among 

 the Khonds seems to suggest that they 

 may have been detained in order to 

 render these services while others of 

 their race were driven westward to the 

 deeper forests by the Khonds when 

 they themselves retired before the Oori- 

 yahs. 



The Gond hand-loom and its produc- 



