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of buffaloes from pastnro to pastiire. Their huts are of a semi-circular 

 form, strongly built with bamboos and mud, having a hole near the 

 ground sufficiently large for their own ingress and for the egress of 

 the smoke from their fires. Only one marriage is permitted amongst 

 the males of a family, and if it should consist of ten or more persons, 

 they have a wife in common. The lady is exempt from household 

 cares and duties, she is served by the men, whose duty it is to prepare 

 and cook the victuals, and it is her privilege also to be cai'ried on the 

 shoulders of her husbands when she makes visits or journeys. She 

 selects whom she pleases of the family as her companion at bed and 

 board, and this freedom of choice protlaces no interruption of domestic 

 harmony. It is necessary that all the men of a family should agree in 

 the choice of a wife, and if there should be a dissentient voice amongst 

 brethren when a lady is submitted for their approbation, she is forth- 

 with sent back to her relations. 



Many of the men whom we saw measured above six feet ; they are 

 robust and athletic, with a marked expression of countenance, Roman 

 noses, and handsome features. The women, though much above the 

 size of their sex below, have anything but a prepossessing appearance : 

 their features are coarse and their mouths unusually wide, but, on the 

 whole, they have much more of the European than the Asiatic cast of 

 countenance. Their dress consists of a single cloth, which completely 

 envelopes their persons, and effectually conceals any grace of figure 

 that they may possess. Both men and women arc fair — fairer, perhaps, 

 than the fairest class of Mahomedans. The fairness of their complexions,, 

 and their singular expression of countenance, may have given rise 

 to a report which has long been prevalent of the existence of a white 

 race of inhabitants in this region. Men, women, and children go bare 

 headed and bare-footed in all weathers. It is against the custom 

 of their caste to wear either turban or sandal ; they permit their hair 

 and beards to grow without restraint. Both sexes, and indeed all the 

 inhabitants of these hills, wear their cloths without washing until 

 they drop into pieces from filth and rags. 



The Koties in appearance have no resemblance whatever to the 

 Todevies, and except that both classes go without covering head or 

 foot, their manners and customs are as dissimilar. Their persons arc 

 more diminutive, their complexions darker, and their features much 

 less expressive. They are cultivators and artizans as well as musi- 

 cians and dancers. The discord or harmony of their pipe has a strong 

 resemblance to the sounds produced from the Scotch bag-pipe, and the 

 dance appeared to an amateur of the party to be either the original or 

 a copy of the famed " quadrille. 'V 



The Bergies are the principal cultivators and landholders. They 

 emigrated from the neighborhood of Mysore about 300 years ago, and 

 obtained possession of their lands from the Todevies, to whom they 

 continue to pay a few handfuls of grain from each field as an 

 acknowledgment of the grant. The language of the Bergies is a 

 dialect of the Canarese ; that of the Todevies and Koties is supposed 



