Vol. I, No. 8.] The People of Mungeli Tahsil. 181 
[N. 8.] 
—By Rey. E. M. Gorpon (continued from the Journal of the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LX XIII. Part 3, No. 1, 1904). 
[With one plate.] Communicated by the Anthropological 
Secretary. 
B. 38. The Measuring of Grain.—It is a never-failing practice 
when a man stops measuring for him to throw a handful of grain 
sowing of seeds from mangoes which have been eaten. The 
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on the outskirts of the v . On inquiring as to why those 
clods wer placed there, I was told that the owner of “a beast of 
urden other domesticated animal that has died will with 
or it is thrown away at a distance to be devoured by vultures. 
41. Granaries causing Dumbness.—I was once questioning a 
father regarding his child and remarked that it was late in speak- 
ing. His reply was that the child had been placed on a granary, 
and this was assigned as the reason for the delay in its acquiring 
the power of speec 
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Cass is then taken by the leather workers, who remove the hide, 
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_ #2. The Cause of prolonged Pregnancy.—A woman came to the 
Mission Hospital in Aenmelt and stated that for eleven months 
She had been pregnant and yet there were no signs of the ap- 
Proach of the expected eve In conversation the doctor learnt 
Nant should step across a stri by which a horse 18 tied, her 
2pparently of 7 fe the layman and yet may be 
uty of no consequence e - 
fraught with much pene the specialist. After sowing the 
Cold- weather crops, such as wheat, gram, etc., it is customary to 
