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the world by Captain Harkness,* it would be presumptuous 

 to offer any remarks on this subject ; and to his valuable 

 work, therefore, we beg to refer our readers, for full informa- 

 tion with regard to the different tribes, particularly that 

 most singular, and once interesting people, the Todars, who are 

 undoubtedly the aborigines of the soil, and in every point of 

 view, one of the most extraordinary races to be met with in 

 India. But, of late years, their original simpKcity of charac- 

 ter has sadly deteriorated, and they are now only like the 

 generality of the native inhabitants. He enumerates four 

 other classes, the Boodigahs or cultivators, the Kothurs, who 

 are the artisans of the hills, and the Brulars and Coorumbars, 

 who inhabit the jungles on the slopes of the hills, and are lit- 

 tle better than savages, in the very lowest stage of humanity. 



* " Description of a singularaboriginalrace, inhabitingthe summits of 

 the Neilgherry Hills," by Captain H. Hartness, Madras Army ; noticed 

 in the list of PubUcations given in the appendix, and from -whioh an 

 Extract is also introduced. See also a very interesting account of tliis 

 tribe in the Madras Christian Herald of July 30, 1856, and following 

 Numbers ; also noticed in the list of publications. — ^Ed. 



