172 Three silver seals of the E. I. Company. [Nov. 



The following- gentlemen have intimated their desiire to withdi'avv from 

 the Society — 



Dr. S. M. Shircore. S. Lobb, Esq. 



The following letters were read — 



1. From the Curator, Indian Museum, forwarding for exhibition 

 three silver seals found in an old chest belonging to the office of the Magis- 

 trate of Dhaka. 



One of these seals is the seal of the Company while it held the Diwani, 

 and bears the following inscription — 



( yy ^ &.i^ jf^^Jji^^ ^Iwj I (5 Aa^ i^^i"*-^ JX'^ ^^^^ ^'^^ ^^^i-^ 



The other is the seal of one of the Nawabs, and bears the following in- 

 scription — 



The third seal is an old seal of the East India Company, and bears 

 round a shield the inscription — 



exgl e ixd comp 

 Dacca. 



2. From the Curator, Indian Museum, forwarding for exhibition 

 a collection of hatchets, spears, musical instruments, &c., as used at the 

 present day by the Baigas, a wild tribe of the Balaghat District. The fol- 

 lowing notes descriptive of the manners and customs of the Baigas accom- 

 panied the letter — 



Extract from Captain W. B. Thompson's Settlement 'Report of the Seoni 



District for 1867. 



148. Under this denomination [Baiga] I class all the tribes whom I un- 

 derstand to have been in the country previous to the Deogarh rule, except the 

 Gaulis. They consist of the Baigas, Gonds, Pm-dhans, Mehras, Bhureas. 

 The Baigas are the wildest of these tribes, inhabiting the most inaccessible 

 hills and the remotest forests, Hving on what they can secure with their 

 bows and arrows, in the use of which they are very skilled, and on the forest- 

 produce, or whatever they can get in exchange for it, and the small crops, 

 which they raise on the hill sides, kodo, kutki, rehur. They are 

 extraordinarily shy, so much so, that it is often difficult to get hold of them, 

 unless you are accompanied by some one they know. They fly out at one 

 end of the village as you appear at the other, and you can see them scram- 

 bhng up the hill sides amongst the stones and bushes, or hiding and 

 peeping from behind bushes at you, like wild animals. It is of no use 



