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Brothers and uncles sat together and deliberated how they were 



to act. 

 While they were discussing whether they would live or die the 



great Kaibon Saheb came. 

 All the people fled in terror ; the Saheb said, " brothers, uncles, 



fear not ; Maliko Knaro come to me." 

 Having sent paiks to collect the people of the land (they), having 



surrounded them, caught the meria sacrificers. 

 Having caught the meria sacrificers, they brought (them) ; and 



again they went and seized the evil councillors. 

 Having seen the chains and shackles the people were afraid ; murder 



and bloodshed were quelled. 

 Then the land became beautiful ; and a certain Mokodella Saheb 



came. 

 He destroyed the lairs of the tigers and bears in the hills and rocks, 



and taught wisdom to the people. 

 After the lapse of a month he built bungalows and schools ; and he 



advised them to learn reading and law. 

 They learnt wisdom and reading ; they acquired silver and gold ; 



then all the people became wealthy. 

 We may I think point to that as a monumentum sere perennius not 

 merely of the pacification of the Kandhmals by the men whose names 

 are still had in remembrance in curiously travestied forms by a grateful 

 people, but of the methods to which British officers owe their success in 

 dealing with primitive folk all over the world. We are greatly indebted 

 to Mr. Friend-Pereira for rescuing from oblivion this and other Kandh 

 songs, and I am sure you will join me in the hope that he will pursue 

 his researches in a region which promises so well. 



I am indebted to Mr. Holland for the following abstract of his 

 paper on the Coorgs and Yeruvas which promises to do much to clear 

 up the Ethnology of Southern India. 



" In the little province of Coorg, which embraces a semi-isolated 

 portion of the Western Ghats of South India, we have an interesting 

 instance of the way in which a mountaiuous and jungle-coveied country 

 has been turned to totally different purposes by two distinct races. 

 Like many of the aboriginal tribes of South India who have been 

 compelled to retire to the unhealthy hills before the southward spread 

 of the Aryans, the Yeruvas found in Coorg an asylum of refuge from 

 the aggressive invaders, whilst the Coorgs, besides finding in the thick 

 jungles the means for satisfying their hunting propensities, regarded the 

 small plateau, with its steep and narrow approaches, as a natural point 

 d'appui for predatory excursions into the country of their wealthier, 



