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inquiry, and to suggest how great a service any one would render, who 
would briefly classify and describe these tribes. There are endless 
distinet tribes, even the names of which I do not attempt to give. 
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POSTSCRIPT. 
When this paper had nearly passed through the Press, Colonel 
Dalton’s paper on the Kols (to the want of which I have alluded) was 
received in the office of the Society, and it will be printed along 
with this. Ihave only had an opportunity of hastily glancing at it, 
but have seen enough to be sure that it will admirably fill up just 
what was wanting in regard to our knowledge of the aboriginal 
tribes, and will be read with extreme interest. The two papers, thus 
published together, having been written without concert, may be found 
to express or assume different opinions on some points; but I hope 
that the general result of Colonel Dalton’s paper will tend rather to 
confirm than to contradict most of that which I have written. In 
regard to the general Negrito character of the Dravidian tribes he 
fully bears me out. «At the same time he seems to point to a consi- 
derable difference in the type of the Moondahs, Hos, Sontals, and 
others speaking the language which I have called Kolarian. He 
seems in some degree to support Major Tickell’s account of the supe- 
rior physical qualities of the Hos, but he also tells us that other 
tribes of this race are much more degraded and less good looking. 
Tn fact, the principal tribes of the race, the Moondahs and Sontals, are 
now extremely well known, and it is patent to all that they are 
among the ugliest of mankind. The Sontals are*a proverb for a 
combination of simple good nature and ugliness. Still, I quite admit 
that most of these people are less black and Negrito-looking than the 
Savage Dravidian tribes. I think I have already suggested, and I 
am inclined to repeat, that they look in some respects more like 
Hottentots than Negroes. It is very much to be desired that a more 
complete study of their language should in some degree break 
through the complete isolation which has been hitherto attributed to 
it. It seems to have no affinity to the more Eastern tongues so far as 
has yet been discovered. 
