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tribes who have nothing whatever to do with the hills, but live in 
the forests and what is called the ‘ Terai,’ at the foot. No two 
climates and locations can be more dissimilar than those of the hills 
and the Terai, and no races are more distinct in their habits, manners, 
and aptitudes than the people of the hills and those of the jungle 
belt below. : 
It may be generally said that there is no Terai or forest belt 
northwest of the Seharunpore district and the Dehra Dhoon; but 
thence eastward this belt stretches along the foot of the hills through 
Rohilcund, Oude, and the Bengal Frontier, up to Assam. <A great 
part of it belongs to the Nepalese. A very interesting paper by Dr. 
Stewart on the Boksas, a forest tribe found in western Rohilcund 
and in part of the forests or Sewalik hills of Dehra Dhoon, was 
published in the Society’s Journal last year. They are entirely con- 
fined to the forest tracts, where they enjoy a wonderful immunity 
from the effects of malaria. They never (says Dr. Stewart) settle more 
than two years on one spot, but after getting a little out of the soil, 
move to fresh locations. They are of short stature and spare habit, and 
in feature certainly Turanian of some sort, with broad faces, depressed 
noses, prognathous jaws, thick lips, and very scanty beard and 
moustaches, but in colour apparently not darker than the ordinary 
Hindoos of the country. They are fond of game and pigs, eat almost 
anything, have no caste, and are reputed to be very skilful in witch- 
craft. They have no separate language. They are simple, inoffensive, 
and good-humoured, but very ignorant and indolent, Their culti- 
vation is very scanty and rude, but they also collect forest produce 
and wash for gold. They are supposed to be dying out. 
I haye seen mention of another small and savage tribe in the 
Rohilcund Terai called ‘“‘ Rawats’’ or “ Rajis ;’’ and passing westward 
we come to a very important tribe, the ‘ Tharoos,’ who in fact occupy all 
the Terai from eastern Rohilcund all along the frontiers of Oude and 
in 
into Goruckpore. They are in many respects very like the Boksas 
physical appearance and manners I should say extremely like—but 
they are much more industrious, and altogether a larger, more settled, 
and, one may say, less savage tribe, They, like the Boksas, keep 
exclusively to the Terai and forest, living where no one else can live. 
They are shy and timid, but frank and truthful, when you get hold of 
