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contrast to the tone of the contemporary eminent English 
ethnologist. Dr. R.G. Latham, then Vice-President of the 
Ethnological Society of London, who, in 1859, published his 
‘‘Ethnology of India” in 375 pages. This was an extract 
from his two-volume work, “‘ Descriptive Ethnology,” in which 
he claims to have attempted ‘‘ a full and systematic descriptio 
of the several varieties of mankind.’’ Unlike Campbell, 
Latham, who apparently had not the advantage of a personal 
knowledge of India and her peoples, was misled into asserting 
as yearly as 1859,—‘‘Of no country is the ethnological litera- 
ture more valuable, full and reliable than that of British India.”’ 
contained in the following few lines: ‘‘ They (the Nilgherry 
Hills) give us :— 
The Tudas—Infanticide polyandrists, who are few in num 
er, and less Hindu than their neighbours ; 
The Curumbars, Curumars, or Curbs ; 
The Irular—(compare the name Warali) ; and 
The Budugars—all fragmentary, pagan, and semipagan 
populations. In the Tuda creed the black stone has 
a prominent place. The fuller form of the word is 
Tudava, apparently word for word ‘“ Tulava”’ 
(pp. 358-359).” 
so largely of Nambuthiri blood ( p. 709). Of the other Nilgiri 
tribes Campbell writes, (pp. 30-31), “There seems to be some 
doubt whether the Badagars and Kotas of the Lower Neilgherry 
hills are properly Aborigines, they being, it appears, Immi- 
grants in those parts, and Carambars the true aborigines. 
