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Notes on a forest race called Puttooas or Juanga. [No. 4. 



the dress of the females, or whether it does not extend also to language 

 and customs. In the former case, it would be tolerably certain, that 

 these forest races have sprung from outcaste or persecuted tribes, 

 which have, at various times, been driven to the jungles, and have 

 naturally enough without any knowledge of each other, adopted a 

 covering of leaves from inability to procure a more convenient 

 material ; in the latter, an additional argument will be afforded for 

 the popular belief, that the hill and forest tribes are the aborigines 

 of Iudia, and we shall have gaiued an important step in our know- 

 ledge of the geographical distribution of these little known races. 





Vocabulary. 



Inglish. 



Juanga. 



Tire, 



Nelye. 



Water, 



Da or Dage 



Earth, 



Nuttub. 



House, 



Heea. 



Man, 



Moolusso. 



"Woman, 



Kheme chelo or Juangurrakeo 



Child, 



Hooale kee. 



Boy, 



Koosnunde. 



Girl, 



Korchetan. 



Tree, 



Seemsee. 



Food, 



Moorke Lukooa. 



Stone, 



Oola. 



One, 



Minna. 



Two, 



Bana. 



Three, 



Teelooko. 



Four, 



Chalooko. 



Ten men, 



Dench dik. 



Cow, 



Oopye. 



Tiger, 



Keelo. 



Horse, 



Ghorardendite. 



Kice, 



Kunkoo. 



Sun, 



Belo. 



Moon, 



Nerango. 



We are, 



Aynde asike. 



