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South," and apparently somewhat like them in character, a dominant 

 agricultural tribe of military proclivities. But of the nature of their 

 settlements I have no information. Another similar tribe are men- 

 tioned as " Ratsawars." 



Another fine tribe called Reddies and found in the Northern 

 Canarese country, are also stated to be a Telinga tribe, but of their 

 location in the latter country I have no particulars. 



The original Telinga " Andras" seem to have come from the North 

 West by the valleys of the Godavery and Wyngunga. The better 

 classes of them would seem to be taller, fairer, and better looking than 

 most of the southerners. The " common Telinga peasantry" arO 

 described as people of spare form and dark complexion, with little 

 spirit or enterprise, but it is added that they do well in the Madras 

 Army. I cannot make out what are the common castes of these people. 



' Naik,' a word known in the native army and elsewhere, is in some 

 sense a Telinga, but more properly I believe an aboriginal word. 

 There are I think some people called Naiks towards the Eastern 

 Ghats, but in most places ' Naik' is the title of a headman. The 

 Telinga villages, I find it stated, are not compact and fort-looking 

 like those of Northern India and the Maratta country, hut loose and 

 detached, which would seem to be rather an approach to the very 

 loose Bengal form. There are a good many Gonds in the North East, 

 but the common low tribes are l Dhers' and ' Beders' who have their 

 Helots' quarter in each village. 



The Telinga palanquin-bearers are widely spread over the south 

 and are, I imagine, the Buis of whom I have before made mention. 

 The bearers who ply at Madras itself and on the East Coast seem to 

 come from Ganjam and the Northern Circars, which also furnish many 

 of the so-called " Coolee" emigrants to the Mauritius. 



The Canarese country is a remarkable instance of the way in which 

 names are transposed in India. The Canarese name is given to 

 everything that is not Canarese, and to nothing that is. What is 

 called in Bombay the " Southern Maratta country," because the 

 Marattas conquered it (the districts of Dharwar and Belgaum and the 

 country about Beejapore) is for the most part ethnologically Canarese-, 

 while the Canara districts on the West Coast (though there is some 

 Canarese intermixture and they were once ruled by a Canarese 



