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The Kolarian Santals are a very ugly race, and I gather that their 
neighbours, the Dravidian Rajmahalees, have rather the advantage of 
them in this respect, but these latter have probably kidnapped a good 
many Arian women from the plains. I have fancied that I have noticed 
in some of the ‘ Dhangar’ labourers in and about Calcutta, a peculiar 
little ‘pique’ ‘retroussé’ sort of nose, as distinguished from the flat 
broad-nosed features of the Santals, but this scarcely amounts to an 
observation. It may be noticed that in the passages which I have 
quoted in regard to the general type of the Aborigines, the African 
style was more especially attributed to Dravidian Oraons, Gonds and 
Chenchwars, &c. The Kolarians, Kaurs, Khairwars and Koors, are 
also represented as only one degree less ill-favoured ; so, on the whole, 
I imagine that in point of personal appearance there is not much to 
choose between the two groups.. Ethnographers seem to distinguish 
the Negritoes of the Southern Seas into two groups, a woolly or curly- 
haired group, and a straight-haired group ; perhaps there may be found 
to have been some such division in India. 
The Santals and most of their immediate congeners, are certainly 
amore simple, mild, and industrious race than the Rajmahalees, Gonds, 
Khonds, and Southern Kallar tribes; but again the Lurka Coles seem 
to be warlike, and the hill Khorewahs are described as wild savages, 
armed with battle axes and bows and arrows. On the whole, I should 
rather imagine that the Kolarians are more frequently good Coolees, 
and the Dravidians oftener troublesome Kallars. 
The descriptions of the Aborigines as a good-natured people, ever 
dancing and singing (in a way that reminds one of the pleasanter 
descriptions of the Negroes,) I find to be applied to the Kolarians,— 
Santals, Moondahs, Khorewahs, &c.—more than to the Dravidian tribes, 
As respects religion, although the indications are too slight for any 
confident generalisation, the accounts of the Kolarian creed seem 
pleasanter than those of the Dravidian beliefs and rites. The latter 
seem to deal in demonology, fetishism, frantic dances, bloody and 
even human sacrifices, in a way which reminds us of the worst African 
types; while several different accounts of Northern Aborigines, in widely 
different parts of the country, represent them as reverencing in an 
inoffensive way the sun, moon, and Lord of tigers, and mild and innocent 
Bhoots or household spirits. The superstitious belief in tigers’ claws 
