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are observed to exist between the Goands and the Telingee cultiva- 

 tors. 



The Goands are to be found wherever there are hills and fastnesses, 

 but they abound most in the north and east of the Khummum and 

 Ramghur Circars ; although a wild uncultivated race that have scarcely 

 advanced a step towards civilization, as is shewn by their non-associ- 

 ation in villages. The Telinga Goands are not, like the wild tribes 

 towards the north, addicted to cannibalism ; good faith and treatment 

 render them tractable and submissive, and would doubtless turn their 

 labour to profit, did circumstances demand it. Dhurs^ the Telinga Dhur, 

 is a despised impure creature. Foreign war and domestic dissension, 

 which, by conferring intelligence, have given some importance to this 

 class in other parts of India, having been wanting in Telingana for 

 centuries, the race has remained in its present state of degradation and 

 moral slavery. 



Dwellings. — A Telingana village presents a striking contrast to a 

 Mahratta one ; instead of the close flat-roofed habitations of the latter, 

 huddled together, so as to take up the smallest possible space, the 

 greater number of the houses of the former are separate, or, what is 



I called, self-contained. The Gurrie in the Mahratta country which in- 



' eludes, generally speaking, all the houses of the village, is in Telingana 

 a detached fortification of some fifty yards square, composed of 



I masonry and mud, seldom having within its enceinte any houses 

 save that of the zemindar or village chief. In the granitic country, 

 the houses are usually of adhesive earth, of a square or rectangular 

 form, smeared often with red earth, and tricked out with bands 



I of chunam, (the sign of comparative comfort and cleanliness within,) 

 with pyramidal roofs of palmyra leaves or grass. On some occasions 

 the houses are more substantially built, and are tiled ; on others, they 

 are mere sheds of palmyra leaves, marking the richer and poorer classes 

 as occupants. The Dherwarra, always detached, and always filthy, is 

 composed of habitations of the latter class. 



In the sandstone country, the construction of the houses is dif- 



' ferent. From the inferior tenacity of the soil it is mostly rejected 

 in building, or, when employed, is mined from the localities where it is 

 ferruginous, and more adhesive. Bamboo and wattle are there the 

 principal substitute for clay in the houses, and the strong-holds are con- 



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