16 Notes of a tour in the Tributary Mehals. [No. 1, 
peared in camp with forty warriors of the tribe. Their costume was 
nothing in particular, except that they had very shaggy heads of hair, into 
which their store of spare arrows were stuck by the barbs. They each 
carried in one hand a very powerful bow and two or three arrows, and 
in the other the gleaming long edged battle-axe of the country. The 
arrows are carefully made with flat bright heads of iron, 9 inches long 
and 23 in breadth, with long barbs, the edges and points all carefully 
sharpened. These are attached to light reeds, the other ends of which 
are neatly spirally feathered. 
The men were mostly short of stature but with well knit muscular 
frames, springy and energetic in action, better looking and of lighter 
complexion than the Oraons of the plateau. There was no remark- 
able protuberance of the maxillary processes nor lowness of forehead. 
Those who were old enough had beards and moustaches. They evinced 
no timidity, but immediately on seeing me, gruffly vociferated that 
they had had nothing to eat all day, and they wanted immediately, 
rations of rice, dal, oil, salt, tobacco and pig, and expected as they 
had come so far to see me, that they were each to be presented with a 
cap, a coat and a waist cloth. 
I placed a small earthen pot on a peg, and offered it as a mark to 
those amongst them who wished to shew their skill in archery. In 
great excitement, all eagerly volunteered, bows were instantly strung, 
and though they did not once hit the small target, they all planted 
their arrows close to it, and aman in the same position would not 
have escaped. I tried them afterwards at a tree at 40 yards, and almost 
every arrow told. Their bows are very powerful, and arrow after 
arrow was delivered with a force and rapidity that made one feel a 
very profound respect for this, owr once national weapon. In bush 
warfare it is more formidable than the matchlock, and I do not doubt 
that the Korewahs could render a hostile entry into their country, 
a difficult and dangerous task. 
There is every point of resemblance between them and the wilder 
section of the Lurka Coles, and so little do the languages of the two 
tribes differ, that my slight acquaintance with that of the Coles, enabled 
me to understand what the Korewahs, on first appearing, were demand- 
ing; and a Cole chaprassee of mine kept up a conversation with them. 
It is almost unnecessary to seek for further prools of affinity, but they’ 

