172 GANJAM. 



SO far as the British Grovernment has 

 interfered to suppress human sacrifice, 

 female infanticide, and crimes of vio- 

 lence, Khonds and Sourahs are left 

 very much to themselves. 

 , These two aboriginal races have no- 

 thing in common, and keep apart from 

 each other. The Sourahs are short, 

 wiry men, of fair complexion, fierce, 

 cunning, and inclined to robbery; the 

 Khonds are a dark-skinned race of 

 gentler nature, much addicted to carry- 

 ing formidable-looking weapons, but 

 not prompt to use them. They carry 

 on their tribal feuds in a slow, cere- 

 monious, Homeric fashion, and are by 

 no means bloodthirsty. 



There is not a single trait, physical, 

 social, or religious, to connect either of 



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