34 OS THE ISHABITAHTS O! 



cautious whom he permits to go into the hills to officiate on tKefe 

 ©ccafions. 



Among the Garrows a madnefs exifts which they call transformation 

 into a tiger from the perfon who is afflicted with this malady walking about 

 like that animal, fhunning all fociety. It is fairJ, that, on their being firfr. 

 feized with this complaint they tear their hair and the rings from their ears, 

 with fuch force as to break the lobe. It is fuppofed t© be occafionedby a 

 medicine applyed to the forehead ; but! endeavoured to procure fbme of the 

 medicine thus ufed without effect : I imagine it rather to be created by fre- 

 quent intoxications, as the malady goes off in the courfe of a week or a 

 fortnight! during the time the perfon is in this flate, it is with the utmoft 

 difficulty he is made to eat or drink. I queftioned a man, who had thus 

 been afflicted, as to the manner of his being feized. and he told me he only 

 felt a giddinefs without any pain, and that afterwards he did not know 

 what happened to him. 



The language of the Garrows is a little mixed with the Bengali: a few 

 words of it I annex ; I had made a tolerable collection for a vocabulary, 

 but unfortunately 1 loft it, by one of my boats finking in the Berhampooter* 



To drink, ring,bo e 



eat, cha,fuch<, 



bathe, ha,boo,ah. 



wafli fu,fuck. i 



fight, denjuck» 



wound s ma,juck. 



come, ra,ba,fuck e 



