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South,” and apparently somewhat like them in character, a dominant 
agricultural tribe of military proclivities. But of the nature of their 
settlements I have no information. Another similar tribe are men- 
tioned as ‘ Ratsawars.” 
Another fine tribe called Reddies and found in the Northern 
Canarese country, are also stated to be a Telinga tribe, but of their 
location in the latter country I have no particulars. 
The original Telinga ‘“‘ Andras” seem to have come from the North 
West by the valleys of the Godavery and Wyngunga. The better 
classes of them would seem to be taller, fairer, and better looking than 
most of the southerners. The ‘common Telinga peasantry” are 
described as people of spare form and dark complexion, with little 
spirit or enterprise, but it is added that they do well in the Madras 
Army. I cannot make out what are the common castes of these people. 
‘ Naik,’ a word known in the native army and elsewhere, is in some 
sense a Telinga, but more properly I believe an aboriginal woud. 
There are I think some people called Naiks towards the Eastern 
Ghats, but in most places ‘ Naik’ is the title of a headman. The 
Telinga villages, I find it stated, are not compact and fort-looking 
like those of Northern India and the Maratta country, but loose and 
detached, which would seem to be rather an approach to the very 
loose Bengal form. There are a good many Gonds in the North Hast, 
but the common low tribes are ‘ Dhers’ and ‘ Beders’ who have their 
Helots’ quarter in each village. 
The Telinga palanquin-bearers are widely spread over the south 
and are, I imagine, the Buis of whom I have before made mention. 
The bearers who ply at Madras itself and on the Hast Coast seem to 
come from Ganjam and the Northern Circars, which also furnish many 
of the so-called “ Coolee” emigrants to the Mauritius. 
The Canarese country is a remarkable instance of the way in which 
mames are transposed in India. The Canarese name is given to 
everything that is not Canarese, and to nothing that is. What is 
called in Bombay the “Southern Maratta country,” because the 
Marattas conquered it (the districts of Dharwar and Belgaum and the 
country about Beejapore) is for the most part ethnologically Canarese, 
while the Canara districts on the West Coast (though there is some 
Canarese intermixture and they were once ruled by a Canarese 
