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lY. —807716 additional Notes on the Hill Inhahitants of the Goomsoor 

 Mountains, ivith the translation of a Telugu paper, containing an 

 Historical Narrative of B'honju Family, Feudal Chieftains of 

 Gumsara. — By the Rev. W. Taylor. 



The account published in the sixteenth number of this JournMl con- 

 cerning the hiil-people of the Goomsur wilds, having elicited a few ob- 

 servations from a gentleman at Ganjam, they are inserted. It is only 

 by attending to various evidence that truth can be arrived at, and hence 

 every testimony to a point not definitely settled has its value, best ad- 

 justed afterwards by comparison. The first communication on the sub- 

 ject is to the following purport : 



" 1 think there are some errors regarding the name of the Khonds 

 in the last No. of your Journal, and I point them out with a view to 

 enable others to get at the truth. They are never termed A7too?ic/s by 

 any class of natives of the country about here. We English are 

 capital hands at distorting names, and this is an instance of it. 

 The term is Khond on the Madras side of the country — but di- 

 rectly the frontier is crossed, the word is pronounced Khunds 

 (short). It is a Wodiah word, and 1 enclose it written in the 

 Ooriah character,* The Ooriahs in Ganjam (who from their constant 

 communication with the Telingashave in some measure corrupted their 

 own language) say Khondoo, and this is in common use with the Te- 

 lingas who usually add the final oo to a word they adopt. Thus if they 

 brought the word hill into use from the English, they might say 

 hilloo and plural hillaloo. 



"The term in the Telinga language is softened toCodoo orCodoo wa- 

 doo, plural, Coduloo and Codoowanooloo — and is just as much a guid- 

 ance to the name of the people of the hills, as the English pronuncia- 

 tion Masulipatam is to Mutchleebunda or Mutchleeputnam, or the word 

 Pariss, as we call it, to the French Paris. 



" I apprehend there must also be a mistake in the term " Khoi jati," 

 which is nothing more or less than two simple Ooriah words, signifying 



what caste." The same precisely as you might say *' kaztiC^ in Hin- 

 dostanee, 



**There are tribes in the interior called Gones ; there is some difference 

 in their customs, and they do not intermarry with the Khonds. There 

 is no great ditFerence in their appearance. None of these peox)le have 

 the slightest resemblance to Bheels in their looks. 



* In a future No. we hope to give these characters; for which no type exists at Madras 



