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sidered a sacred, and the hog an accursed, animal, and never used as 

 food. No one can read or write. 



They are very rarely allowed to reside inside towns ; but when 

 this liberty is granted them, they pitch their tents or erect grass huts 

 at a distance from the dwellings of respectable people. The women 

 wear a boddice (choli) open in front, and a sarhi ; the men dress as 

 Hindus usually do. 



This branch bury their dead, and the food that was most liked by 

 the deceased is placed at the head of the grave. The most favourable 

 omen of the state of the departed soul is drawn from its being eaten 

 by a crow ; less auspicious if by a cow ; but if both the crow and cow 

 decline to eat it, they deem the dead to have lived a very depraved 

 life, and impose a heavy fine on his relatives for having permitted 

 such evil ways. 



Their religion is the brahminical, and Brahmins assist at all their 

 ceremonies. Their language is nearly similar to that spoken by the 

 Bajantri Korawa, with whom they agree in the arrangement of the 

 Korawas into four branches. The other two, in addition to the 

 Bajantri and Teling Korawa, I never met with. They are called 

 Koonsi Korawa, and the Patra Korawa, or Patra Pulloo. Their 

 manners and habits and mode of life are scarcely dissimilar from one 

 another ; all of them can converse in their own language, but they 

 do not eat or marry with an individual of a different branch. 



THE BHATOO. 



This migratory people are known in India by the name of Doomur 

 or Kollati. They are spread over the whole of the great continent ; 

 but though retaining among themselves the name of Bhatoo, they are 

 arranged into several distinct tribes, speaking different tongues, and 

 holding no intercourse with each other. One of these tribes occupies 

 the country from Ahmednuggur in the north, to Hurryhur in the 

 south, and lie between Bellary and the western shores of India. 



The Bhatoo are seldom tall, rarely exceeding five feet two inches in 

 height, and the women attaining a proportionate size. At the period 

 of adolescence, however, the young men and women are perfect models 

 for the sculptor, the plumpness of that age rounding off the form, and 

 hiding the projecting bones and the hollows between the muscles, 



