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pore are Kharwars, however they may claim an origin from Rajpoot 

 foundlings, and they are the people who most affect what Col. 

 Dalton calls ' refining into Rajpoots.' Although many of them may 

 have achieved a good deal of improvement in their blood and appear- 

 ance, they are not originally a handsome race, for Col. Dalton expressly 

 tells us that in the more remote parts, the Kharwars of Palamow, 

 and especially the Bhogtahs, are very ugly and ill-favoured. Like 

 the other aborigines, they have no proper caste and eat anything. 



I leave, for separate notice, a very numerous tribe all along the 

 borders of Bengal, Orissa, and part of Bahar, called Bhuyas, whose 

 connection with the races above described is not clear. 



In this region of India, it only remains to mention one more Abori- 

 ginal tribe, called Kaurs, found in the extreme west of the Chota- Nag- 

 pore Agency about Korea, Oodeypore, and the adjoining parts of the 

 territory of Nagpore proper, the Pergunnah of Korbah of Chatteesgurh. 

 They are described as a very industrious thriving people, considerably 

 advanced in civilisation. They now affect Hindoo traditions, pretend 

 to be descended from the defeated remnants of the Kooroos who 

 fought the Pandavas, worship Siva and speak Hindee, but in appear- 

 ance they are ultra-aboriginal, very black, with broad noses and thick 

 lips, and eat fowls, &c, bury most of their dead, and contemn 

 Bramins ; so that their Hindooism is scarcely skin-deep. 



From the last mentioned point westward, through a broad tract of 

 country, the plains are occupied by the ordinary Indian Arians, the 

 hills and forests by the Gonds (who here in the centre of India meet 

 the Hindustanees on the North, the Telingas on the South, and the 

 Marattas on the West) ; and we do not again come to Kolarian 

 Aborigines, till we get in fact to the West of India. There is then a 

 hiatus, as respects the Kolarians, of four or five degrees of longitude, 

 where by the advance of the conquering Gronds they have probably been 

 split asunder. It somewhat singularly happens that the first people of 

 this race whom we come to in the West, bear as nearly as possible the 

 same name as the last we left in the East. The latter were called 

 ' Kaurs.' In the Western Sautpooras, in the hills about Gawalghur 

 near Ellichpore, and thence towards Inelore, is a tribe called ' Coour* 

 or Koor Koos. These people speak an undoubtedly Kolarian language. 

 The name is sufficiently near to Gour to cause them to have been 



