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against two bamboo posts and quite open on three sides. 
These people live mainly on wild roots and fruit, honey, grubs, 
etc., and, to a certain extent, on food-stufis obtained from the 
plains by barter for jungle products, but at a pinch they are 
quite self-supporting. They are much addicted to opium 
eating. 
The Malasas are a larger and wider spread tribe, much 
more in contact with the population of the plains and often 
living alongside of plains villages, where they are employed 
on field labour. 
he Pulaiyas and the Muduvas dwell exclusively in the 
central and eastern portions of the hills. The latter are said 
to descend from plains people who took refuge in the hills 
m the aggression of Tippo Sultan’s Muhammadan invaders. 
They rate themselves as the aristocracy of the hills and are 
Poir, to a considerable extent, irrigating the fields by channels 
from the streams. It has been stated that “ ganja” (Cannabis 
Sativa Linn.) is grown in places in spite of legal prohibition, 
but I have never seen any sign of it, nor have the excise 
foming his observations are to be found in his “ Flora sylva- 
tica,”” « p h 
. - have not been able to ascertain whether Dr. Robert 
Wight, who was stationed for a considerable time in Coimba- 
did n 
