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sometimes confounded with their neighbours, the Gonds, but the 

 difference is clear. In the notes with which I have been favoured 

 from Bombay, Major Keatinge mentions them as " a tribe of Gonds 

 calling themselves Koor Koos," but he goes on to distinguish them 

 from the Gonds, mentioning the geographical location of each, and 

 adding that the two tribes keep themselves separate, do not intermix, 

 and that each has a separate language of its own. He does not give 

 particulars of the language, and it is from a paper on which I stumbled 

 in an old number of the Society's Journal, and which does not appear 

 to have been previously much noticed, that I have been able to 

 identify this tribe with precision. Dr. Voysey, writing at Ellichpore 

 so long ago as 1821, also at first calls them Gonds, but he goes on to 

 say that they are also called ' Goours,' and that the Gonds consider 

 themselves a distinct tribe from the Coours and neither eat nor inter- 

 marry with them. He then gives a small list of Coour words. This 

 was taken long before Hodgson's vocabularies were published, and the 

 two seem never to have been compared. I have compared Dr. Voysey's 

 list with Hodgson's lists of words of the Kolarian tribes of Lurka 

 Coles, Santals, &c. and find a remarkable coincidence. For instance, 

 take the numerals. 



Coour. Hodgson's Coles, &c. 



1. Mea, Mi. 



2. Bariah, Barria. 



. 3. Aphe, Apia. 



4. Aphoon, Apunia. 



5. Munea, Monaya. 



6. Turrume, Turia. 



7. Aya, Iya. 



8. Ilhar, Mia. 



9. Arhe, Area. 



10. Gyl, Gel. 



And again. 



Coour. Hodgson. 

 Man, Hoko, Ho. 



Water, Da, Dah. 



Fire, Singhel, Sengel. 



Tree, Darao, -Dam. 



