92 Notes on ihe Hill I nhabiiayits of iJie Goomsoor Monnlarns. [Jai^, 



ciety. I do not know wlietherit may be pronoimced worth publishing, 

 and moreover it contains a somewhat ob.scene legend of the origin of 

 the race. Sooriah Narrain, liowever, will be flatlered, 1 dare say, if you 

 find any thing in it worth noticing. The translation in Englisli will be 

 belter done at Madras than by any person I have here, so 1 send you 

 the original. 



" Sooriah Narrain, who is one of the best English scholars I know, 

 wrote to me \h\\s the day before yesterday. 



" I am glad your honor is getting the history of the Bunje family 



translated, and would like to see it in print. 1 nave read lately 

 " some account given by Dr. Maxwell and the late Mr. Stevenson, 

 " of the Goomsoor Malia inhabitants ; in which Dr. Maxwell put 

 " in Kodaloo or Bauvoorus (our regular Commissariat bearers) among 

 *' the Malia inhabitants, and spoke a good deal of their marriage 

 " ceremony. Not a single soul of these is the inhabitant of the jungles 

 " as far as 1 can learn. As I have now scarcely time to arrange all my 

 " gleanings of historical enquiries of this country, 1 will write you by 



another opportunity a correct account of the Goomsoor Malia inha- 

 " bitants, their customs, religion, language, &c. &c. as I was informedby 

 " the Janus, or the bishops, of Coomingia and Goonjabad. The Khonds 

 " consult the Janus both on spiritual and tenipornl matters, and they 

 " (the Janus) iiave as much authority and influence in Khondistan as 

 " the former Popes had in Europe, implicated even in civil wars. 

 " These Khondish divines or reverend gentlemen further substitute 

 " their superstitious ceremonies for medical aid for a Khond patient." 



The latter sentences w'ill amuse you, if you have patience to read 

 what I have copied. His remarks confirm my objection to the word 

 Cuduloo in my former note, as 1 have liad no communication with him 

 on the subject. Other castes mentioned in the list are notKhond also. 

 Sooriah. Narrain places the error on Dr. Maxwell's shoulders — as of 

 course he could not accuse his late master, the Commissioner, of com* 

 mining an error. The cutclierry servants who compiled the memoran- 

 da of Mr. Stevenson were just as ignorant of the Ivhond language as the 

 Europeans, and wrote it down in Telugu according to the sound in iJieir 

 ears. So that the list cannot be taken as a fair criterion to judge of 

 the language, cvo," 



The diiTcrcnce between tlie Commissioner and the Tahsildar, cannot 

 be adjusted by a third persc.'U at a distance, ^Vhat remains, thereforei 

 is for the TahsiKuir to gut ready, and send in, his beUer account, that 



