The Ethnology of India. 4] 
sometimes confounded with their neighbours, the Gonds, but the 
difference is clear. In the notes with which I have been favoured 
from Bombay, Major Keatinge mentions them as “a tribe of Gonds 
calling themselves Koor Koos,” but he goes on to distinguish them 
from the Gonds, mentioning the geographical location of each, and 
adding that the two tribes keep themselves separate, do not intermix, 
and that each has a separate language of its own. He does not give 
particulars of the language, and it is from a paper on which I stumbled 
in an old number of the Society’s Journal, and which does not appear 
to have been previously much noticed, that I have been able to 
identify this tribe with precision. Dr. Voysey, writing at Hllichpore 
so long ago as 1821, also at first calls them Gonds, but he goes on to 
say that they are also called ‘ Coours, and that the Gonds consider 
themselves a distinct tribe from the Coours and neither eat nor inter- 
marry with them. This 
was taken long before Hodgson’s vocabularies were published, and the 
He then gives a small list of Coour words. 
two seem never to have been compared. I have compared Dr. Voysey’s 
list with Hodgson’s lists of words of the Kolarian tribes of Lurka 
Coles, Santals, &c. and find a remarkable coincidence. For instance, 
take the numerals. . 
Coour. Hodgson’s Coles, &e. 
Mieaeientes uN ai chs ue eat Mi. 
1 
Eg arias eo Barria, 
SUMING ch Meee NS HID seal dese Oe Apia. 
AMPA Ooms 48 2.62. 008 Ome . Apunia. 
Drae Mammeaiytcvee. sie t SP an benes noon Adlormehyél. 
Gagaee DRT es aire Sho cle Vic cls'sa'les « Turia. 
Mei Acar me ROGe SAU Aad. Tya. 
Bere inacsme aGula.. Gs) elie’. 
Oe Amie oie cess). (ae Magee ee oe Area! 
AO) Ror Geyni te May) 3 04) snihke. Be Gel, 
And again. 
Coour. Hodgson. 
Man, Hoko, To. 
Water, Da, Dah. 
Fire, Singhel, Sengel. 
vee; Davao, Daru. 
