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-Some Account of the Hill Tribes 



[Dec. 



Arm 



Kul 





Ice 



Muz 



Five 



Bash. 



Sua 



Kiitn 





Snow Kar 



Six 



Alteh. 



Moon 



Ai 





Rain Yamghhr 



Seven 



Yetteh. 



Night 



Kicheh 





Deer Ktk 



Eight 



Sakis. 



Star 



Yelduz 





Road Ybl 



Nine 



Tokus. 



Year 



Yel 





A Sheep Kol 



Ten 



On. 



Stone 



Task 





The wool "J 



Twenty 



Yegirmi. 



Silver 



Gumish 





used for j 



Thirty 



Otus. 



Gold 



Altiir 





making \ Tibbit. 



Forty 



Kerk. 



Iron 



Tumir 





Kashmir 



Fifty 



Alek. 



Wool 



Yung 





Shawls J 



Sixty 



Altmish. 



Fool 



Tukheh 





One Bir. 



Seventy 



Yetmish. 



Sister 



Saulin 





Two Iki. 



Eighty 



Saksen. 



Brother 



Yanim 





Three Uch. 



Ninety 



Toksan. 



Wind 



Shamhl 





Four Tut. 



Hundred 

 Thousand 



Yuz. 

 Ming. 







Verbs. 









To give 



Birmak. 



To sell Satmak. 







To take 



Almak. 



To eat Kich kanch almak. 





To speak 



Ditnak. 



To buy- 



Satab almak. 





To strike 



Urmak. 



To drink Ichmak. 







To carry 



Makmak. 









II, Some Account of the Hill Tribes of the Piney Hills in the Madura 



District. Extracted from the MS. Journal of the late Major Ward. 

 Madras European Regiment, communicated by Capt. T. J. Taylor, 



The primitive inhabitants residing in the Varshagherry and Kum- 

 nundaven mountains, are the Kunnuver Villagers, in number amount- 

 in°- to about 4000 of both sexes, who resorted to them, it is supposed, 

 about four centuries ago. They may be classed with the Villalers of 

 the plain, yet differ in their habits and manners, scarcely having any 

 intercourse with each other, or forming any connection by marriage. 

 This latter circumstance may, however, in some degree be attributed 

 to the difference of climate, the extreme cold of which the inhabitants 

 of the low lands are unable to endure. It is still more singular that 

 even among themselves they have peculiar habits and customs, which 

 distinguish those in the east from their western neighbours : the latter 

 consider themselves as something superior, and have no communica- 

 tion with each other. In their marriages, the Kunnuvers of the east 

 invariably use a teak-wood stool when performing the ceremony by 

 way of distinction : those of the west are not so particular, the bride 

 and bridegroom are seated on stools, the floor of the house being 

 previously garnished with cow-dung, and fantastically ornamented 

 with streaks of flour. When the operation of sprinkling saffron-water 

 is over, the husband performs the most important part of tying the 

 tally, a small golden ornament, around the neck of the bride ; the 

 whole concludes with an entertainment to the relatives and friends of 



