710 Account of the Origin, etc. of the . [July, 



dices, cheerful docility, and peaceable industrious habits and temper, 

 which render the Kols now so valuable to us, are the inherent charac- 

 teristics of most of the aborigines, requiring only the hand and eye of 

 a paternal Government to call them forth, as in the case of the Kols. 

 Ages of insolent oppression drove the aborigines to the wilds, and kept 

 them there till their shyness of all strangers had become rooted and in- 

 tense. But I can answer for the Bodo and Dhimal possessing every 

 good quality of the Kols, in an equal or superior degree, and the Bodo 

 have already shown us with what facility those qualities may be put in 

 action for our benefit as well as their own. 



Physical type of all. — The physical type of the Kocch, as con- 

 trasted with that of the Hindu, is palpable, but not so as compared 

 with that of the Bodo and Dhimal. In other words, the physical type 

 in all the Tamulians, (of this frontier at least) tends to oneness. A 

 practised eye will distinguish at a glance between the Arian and Tamu- 

 lian style of features and form — a practised pen will readily make the 

 distinction felt — but to perceive and to make others perceive, by pen or 

 pencil, the physical traits that separate each group or people of Arian 

 or of Tamulian extraction from each other group, would be a task in- 

 deed ! In the Arian form (Hindu) there is height, symmetry, lightness 

 and flexibility : in the Arian face an oval contour with ample forehead 

 and moderate jaws and mouth ; around chin, perpendicular with the fore- 

 head ; a regular set of distinct and fine features ; a well raised and un- 

 expanded nose, with elliptic nares ; a well sized and finely opened eye, 

 running directly across the face ; no want of eye-brow, eye-lash or 

 beard ; and lastly, a clear brunet complexion, often not darker than 

 that of the most southern Europeans. 



In the Tamulian form, on the contrary, there is less height, less 

 symmetry, more dumpiness and flesh : in the Tamulian face, a some- 

 what lozenge contour caused by the large cheek bones ; less perpendi- 

 cularity in the features to the front, occasioned not so much by defect 

 of forehead or chin, as by excess of jaws and mouth ; a larger propor- 

 tion of face to head, and less roundness in the latter ; a broader, flatter 

 face, with features less symmetrical, but perhaps more expressive, at least 

 of individuality ; a shorter, wider nose, often clubbed at the end and 

 furnished with round nostrils ; eyes less, and less fully opened and less 

 evenly crossing the face by their line of aperture ; ears larger ; lips 



