The ‘ Kols” of Chota-Nagpore. tae 
saved the goddess Kali when, as Runkini, she ran away from Pochete. 
‘Discredit has attached to the Bhoomij and Sonthal in consequence of 
the human sacrifices offered at this shrine of Runkini, but the whole 
establishment and ritual are essentially Braminical. The Bhoomyj 
and Sonthal races personally do not much care for the blood-thirsty 
goddess. The Bhoomij is the branch of the Moondah race that has 
spread farthest in an eastern direction. Bhoomij are to be found in 
Mohurbhunj and Keonjur, though perhaps not so much at home there 
as in Dhulbhoom. 
The Sonthals are now chiefly massed in the Sonthal Pergunnahs, 
but they muster strong in Mohurbhunj, and there are several colonies 
of them in the Singbhoom district. They are an erratic race, and 
their ancient traditions are lost in the history of their modern migra- 
tions; but my idea is that their chief settlements in Bengal were once 
on the Damoodah river, and that they gave way to the Koormees, an 
industrious Hindoo race, who now form the bulk of the population in 
that part of Manbhoom. 
In a southerly direction the next tribe of “ Dasyus” that we come 
across are the Khunds, but I am unable to trace any point of regsem- 
blance between them and the Moondah, either in their religion with 
its morbid superstitions and horrible human sacrifices, or in their 
language. 
To trace the further ramifications of the Moondahs we must proceed 
west, not south, and take up the link in the hills and highest table- 
lands of Sirgoojah and Juspore, where we find the wildest of the race 
in the Korewahs. Ihave given a brief note on them in the paper 
above quoted, and have only to_add that the Korewahs are quite 
unaware of the connectionship between themselves and the Kols. 
They do not acknowledge, and do not see, that the languages are almost 
identical. This would not, I conceive, have been the case if the 
Korewahs had broken off from their Satyomba kinsfolk. 
The Korewahs are another branch of the family, and the history 
of their migrations is no doubt an independent one. It is probable 
that they were forced back into the hills they now occupy by the 
Gooands, as a Hindooized clan of that people became the dominant 
race in the plains of Sirgoojah. Moreover, as pointed out by 
Mr, G, Campbell, at a late meeting of the Society, we have in 
