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The inhabitants of the hills near Monghier 

 and Bauglepore, called Pahariahs, are of short 

 stature, with large flat noses, and their hair is 

 like wool ; altogether they resemble the Africans 

 on the coast of Guinea. In small Nagpore the 

 people are much of the same stature, with the 

 same kind of hair, and are called Coles and 

 Daungers* In the intermediate part of the 

 same range of hills forming the district of Ram- 

 ghur, the inhabitants appear to be a mixture 

 between the before mentioned people, and the 

 inhabitants of the lower part of Bengal ; their 



* Daungers, in a body of fifty to a hundred, leave their 

 own country in search of work, and go to Gyah, Patna, or 

 Benares, or wherever there are large works going on, as 

 cutting water courses, digging tanks, &c. &c. ; and as soon 

 as they have saved a few rupees, they always return to their 

 native hills, where they live on it a year or two ; rice, 

 their chief article of food, being there very cheap. A 

 Daunger may be hired at Chittrah to go to Calcutta, which 

 is upwards of three hundred miles, and return with a 

 heavy load, carried on a bargy, for three rupees, eight 

 annas, which is eight shillings and nine pence. Their 

 usual load is 18 bottles of wine ; I have often known 

 them to carry two dozen. Most of the wine drank at 

 Chittrah whilst I was there, was conveyed thither in this 

 way. 



