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same as the " Bliers." There is a low caste called " Parwarees" in 

 the country below the Ghats. They are found in the Bombay 

 army. They, also, seem to be much the same as Mhars. Everything 

 seems to point to the reasonable expectation, that if we could but 

 trace the matter back far enough, the Groozerattee language would be 

 found to be the tongue of the Rajpoots and Koormees with an infu- 

 sion derived from the Koolees, and the Maratta that of the Koormees 

 and Mallies with a considerable infusion derived from the aboriginal 

 Mhars. I have not any good description of the personal appearance 

 of the modern Mhars. The Ramooses of the south of the Bombay 

 country, seem to have been a bold robber caste, now settled down to 

 cultivation. They came apparently from the Telagoo country and 

 are not aboriginal to the Maratta districts. 



Besides the settled lower classes, there are also in the north some 

 tribes of a character which is apparently more common in the south ; 

 people who are a kind of half-tamed huntsmen, watchmen, and thieves, 

 doing little regular labour. In all Oude and in some of the neigh- 

 bouring districts to the east, there prevails a very peculiar tribe called 

 " Pasees" who almost monopolise the office of village watchmen and 

 who are in their way extremely good active men. They are also 

 huntsmen and thieve extensively, also to some degree cultivate and 

 labour. On the whole they are superior to most of these tribes. 



Then there are several wandering tribes of Bhoureahs, Sansees, 

 Harnees, Koonjars, Dhanuks, and others who go about on pretext of 

 trapping vermin and the like, and are great robbers. There are also 

 everywhere the gypsy ' Nuts' or ' Sirkie-bashes' (dwellers under reed- 

 mats), but Gypsies are too well-known all over the world to need 

 farther specification here. 



The Tribes oe the South. 



• I have already avowed my ignorance of the Telinga country, and 

 without a good knowledge of the races there existing, it would be im- 

 possible to trace the Aryan tribes in their progress from North to 

 South — for I find that a very large proportion of the tribes farther 

 South refer to Andria, the Telinga country, as a former stage in their 

 southward progress. That country seems in fact to have been a great 

 nursery of the southern tribes. Whether " Andria" is another form of 



