126 The Ethnology of India. 
same as the “ Dhers.’’ There is a low caste called ‘‘ Parwarees”’ in 
the country below the Ghats. They are found in the Bombay 
army. They, also, seem to be much the same as Mhars. Everything 
seems to point to the reasonable expectation, that if we could but 
trace the matter back far enough, the Goozerattee language would be 
found to be the tongue of the Rajpoots and Koormees with an infu- 
sion derived from the Koolees, and the Maratta that of the Koormees 
and Mallies with a considerable infusion derived from the aboriginal 
Mhars. I have not any good description of the personal appearance 
of the modern Mhars. The Ramooses of the south of the Bombay 
country, seem to have been a bold robber caste, now settled down to 
cultivation. They came apparently from the Telagoo country and 
are not aboriginal to the Maratta districts. 
Besides the settled lower classes, there are also in the north some 
tribes of a character which is apparently more common in the south ; 
people who are a kind of half-tamed huntsmen, watchmen, and thieves, 
doing little regular labour. In all Oude and in some of the neigh- 
bouring districts to the east, there prevails a very peculiar tribe called 
“ Pasees’ who almost monopolise the office of village watchmen and 
who are in their way extremely good active men. They are also 
huntsmen and thieve extensively, also to some degree cultivate and 
labour. On the whole they are superior to most of these tribes. 
Then there are several wandering tribes of Bhoureahs, Sansees, 
Harnees, Koonjars, Dhanuks, and others who go about on pretext of 
trapping vermin and the like, and are great robbers. ‘There are also 
everywhere the gypsy ‘ Nuts’ or ‘ Sirkie-bashes’ (dwellers under reed- 
mats), but Gypsies are too well-known all over the world to need 
farther specification here, 
Tur TRIBES oF THE SouTH. 
I have already avowed my ignorance of the Telinga country, and 
without a good knowledge of the races there existing, it would be im- 
possible to trace the Aryan tribes in their progress from North to 
South—for I find that a very large proportion of the tribes farther 
South refer to Andria, the Telinga country, as a former stage in their 
southward progress. That country seems in fact to have been a great 
nursery of the southern tribes. Whether ‘“ Andria” is another form of 
