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prognathous and the lower lip thick, and the moustache and beard are 

 very scanty. Some of these peculiarities are much more marked 

 in certain individuals than in others, but most of them were notice- 

 able in almost every man's face I saw, and it seems certain that a 

 Boksa will at once recognize another to belong to his tribe even if 

 he never saw him before, although some persons (Kumaonis) said 

 they could not recognize one of the tribe until he spoke. 



The features of the few women that I had an opportunity of seeing 

 closely, were comely enough and of the same general character as 

 those of the men ; but, as might be expected, in the children of both 

 sexes and even in a descendant the above peculiarities were 

 but little noticeable. Indeed, some lads were remarked in whose 

 features could be discovered no difference from those of the ordinary 

 peasant of the district. I cannot say, whether or not, it was owing to 

 the Boksa peculiarities of feature striking one less after a time, but 

 in the western part of the forest, which was visited last, " features 

 hardly so marked here" are noted more than once. 



As will be seen presently, I am inclined to lay considerable stress 

 on the fact of the Boksas having features with so many points of 

 resemblance to the Turanian type so well-marked, that they have in a 

 general way been commented on by all previous observers. 



The dress of the men is the same as that of the ordinary native of the 

 North "West Provinces, but, except in one or two cases where the Pudhan 

 may be presumed to have put on his " Sunday clothes" for inspection, 

 none of them wore turbans over the thin cotton cap which generally 

 covers the head. The little boys run about in puris, or nearly so, the 

 girls wear a scanty rag. The women's dress consists of a petticoat, 

 generally blue or of an orange-red, with a dirty-white or orange-red 

 chacldar. 



The proper names, in use by the Boksas, are almost always the 

 same as those of Hindoos generally, with a few exceptions such 

 as Palu, Dhanni, Mangu and Kakha, which may be supposed to have 

 been corrupted from Hindoo names. All of those, who were cpiestioned 

 on the subject, were quite positive that their language is quite the 

 same as that of the other inhabitants of the district, and I heard of 

 no words peculiar to these people, with the exception of some names 

 of trees. The most remarkable of these is Kanddr for the Sal tree, 



