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of their common life and occupation, I find it very difficult 
to discover words for abstract terms, without which I cannot 
have a religious conversation with them, so I help myself 
with Badaga words, which most of them understand. The 
Todas do not trouble themselves much about religion. Theirs 
is a very convenient one. Heaven is nothing else but a place 
where they will have plenty of Buffaloes and as no Toda has 
any doubt about his going to heaven, he thinks that 
the occupation in the other world vi^, feeding Buffaloes does 
not require any preparation. 
On this account I find their language very poor and in- 
sufficient to convey the truth of the Gospel to them. 
Most of their verbs have only one tense, and they 
help themselves by adverbs of time to express the future and 
past tenses. 
I also find that there is a slight difference in the dialects 
of the different tribes of the Todas. For instance one tribe has 
an Sh where another has an S or a Th (like the English,) 
which another again changes into Soy T.J. write their language 
in Canarese characters. In printing the Gospel of Luke in the 
Badaga language, we were obliged to take up some of the old 
Canarese characters, which are not in use now in the present 
Canarese. In the Toda language I helped myself by adding 
marks in some characters to shew the peculiar Toda sound. 
For instance, the Th I have given with to distinguish it 
from and as their Kh is pronounced like the German or 
rather Swiss Ch I mark this sound by ^ to make it different 
from SO* In many cases the Ph is like the English which 
