1902.] Monmohan Roy. — Some notes on the "Bajvamgl Oaste. 79 



quicker than he ever could before. The fox ties the strings of the shoes 

 as tight as possible, and when they see a herd of goats, the wolf is sent 

 for a trial. When the goat-herds see him, the wolf tries to run away, 

 but cannot, on account of the shoes. He is killed by the goat-herds. 

 Meanwhile the bear who was delighted to have received the umbrella, 

 had gone home to his cave high up in the rocks. Unfortunately his 

 children, who had never seen an umbrella, were frightened by their father, 

 ran out of the cave and fell down the precipice. The mother who tried 

 to hold them by their tails, fell down behind them, and the father 

 bear who wished to hold his wife, tumbled down behind her. Then 

 nobody was left to bring the fox before the king. 



10. 

 The fox had stolen a calf and had tied it up near his house to graze 

 there. He said : " When you see the wolf coming, you must cry, and 

 I will come and deliver you ! " Then he goes away to get some leather. 

 After a short time he heard the calf crying and went there to deliver it. 

 There was no wolf and the calf said : " I was crying only because I 

 enjoyed the grass so much ! " The wolf goes away andithe same thing 

 happens again. Then the fox becomes angry and resolves not to go to 

 the calf again. Now the wolf actually comes and carries the calf away. 



Notes. 



To No. 8. It is remarkable that the obscene conclusion of the 

 German version of this tale is apparently not known in Ladakh. 



To. No. 10. This tale seems to be an alien element in the cycle of 

 the fox-tales. It is not necessary to be a fox if one wishes to be wiser 

 than a calf. This story seems to have been borrowed from an incident 

 in the Rhea Sylvia- tales which were told in this Journal, antey Part III, 

 1902, pp. 4-13. 



2. The Sarahs of Orissa»—By Mahamahopadhtata Hara Prasad 

 Shastri. 



3. Some notes on the Bajvanigi Caste. — By Monmohan Rot, Deputy 

 Magistrate^ Bangpur, (Oommunicated by the Anthropological Secretary), 



(Abstract.) 



The terms Ra3varii9i and Koch have generally been assumed to apply 

 to the same ethnic group, but the author of this paper gives good reasons 

 for believing that they really include two communities of entirely dif- 

 ferent origin. When the Mongoloid Koches rose to power in the west of 

 Assam, and the north of North Bengal, they gradually fell under the 

 influence of Hinduism and began to assume the name Rajvarii^i which 



