36 The Ethnology of India. 



minute inquiry would be very desirable. Besides a more exact and 

 full grammar, I think it would be well to separate out from the Hindee 

 a list of non- Sanscrit words of common use, (and which are not also 

 common to the greater part of the world, such as " kowa" a crow, and 

 some of the universal Turanian words), and having thus got what I may 

 call a Hindee proper vocabulary, to compare it carefully with the 

 dialects of the Santals, &c. 



In addition to the semi-civilised tribes which I have mentioned, 

 nearly the same language is spoken by the wilder Lurka Coles of the 

 hills to the West of the Singbhoom district. North of these latter 

 again, in the highest hills to the North of Jushpore, and in those 

 between Sirgoojah and Palamow, Col. Dalton mentions a considerable 

 tribe called Khorewahs, who speak much the same language, whose 

 manners and habits are the same, .and who are evidently of the same 

 stock, though much less civilised ; some, he says, utterly savage and 

 almost Nomadic. They are said to be of small stature, but better 

 looking and lighter than their neighbours, the Dravidian Oraons, with 

 shaggy heads of hair and some beard. 



Mention is made of some other very wild tribes scattered about the 

 Chota-Nagpore division, Kherrias (who are a mystery even to Col. 

 Dalton), Bendkurrs and Birhores in the south of the division, and 

 Bhuhars or Boyars (not to be confounded with very different Bhuyas to 

 be subsequently noticed) in the north ; but the languages and affinities 

 of these tribes have not been ascertained sufficiently to place them. 

 They are described as " regularly wild inhabitants of the hills and jun- 

 gles, who have no fixed villages, but move about from place to place, 

 burning down the jungles, sowing in the ashes ; and after reaping 

 what is produced, going elsewhere. " 



On the Sumbulpore borders, the Coles, intermixed among the Gonds, 

 are said to be known as " Kirkees." 



Mr. Samuells mentioned a wild tribe in the jungles of Cuttack, 

 whom he calls ' Janguas,' perfect savages, small, slender, nearly 

 naked, and horrid in appearance. They speak a strange language, 

 and he gives a few words, some of which seem like the language 

 of the Santals, &c , as l Minnah/ one, and l Bana,' two. 



The Aboriginal tribes near Cuttack strike a bargain by breaking 

 a straw. 



