1838.1 



Report on the Mackenzie Manuscripts. 



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These were wild and naked savages, who " after the flood" increas- 

 ed and lived by hunting. They were very ignorant, even of the ex- 

 istence of any god. In later times, kings of the country, perceiving 

 them to be people free from guile, took them into service, fed and 

 clothed them, employed them to destroy wild beasts j and, at length, 

 as soldiers. The Fedars ultimately built for themselves a fort in the 

 Wynaad country, and ruled over some extent of territory, but their 

 town was subsequently taken and incorporated within the jurisdiction 

 of the Malayalam country. They were certainly a useful people in 

 clearing the country of ferocious animala. 



Note. —This paper may be compared with one abstracted in my 

 Second Report, B.— Malay ulam, MS. Book, No. 3, Sec. xi. It also 

 further illustrates the extensive existence in the Southern Peninsula 

 of an aboriginal people, differing from the Hindus. 



Section 5. Account of the Manradiyar of Itnmudi-pat?iam. 



This is a notice of a palliya-cara of modern origin. The head of the 

 race was named Manradi. The chiefs of this district were employed 

 against the Kaliars, or thieves, another name for the Curumbars or 

 F edars ; and subsequently, in the wars with Tippo-Sultan, they ren- 

 dered essential services. 



Formerly the Curumbars kept herds and flocks in this neighbourhood, 

 whence their town was called Pailipulam. Other names were given. 

 Certain old coins have been found there. Remains of their fort ap- 

 pear. Roman coins have been found there. The people had a town 

 on the sea shore, for the purpose of trading. There is a large stone 

 inscription, said to have been engraved by the Curumbars: but now 

 illegible ; unless perhaps by the keen eye sight of very young persons. 

 There were certain large jars containing bones, which some years ago, 

 after being examined, w-ere cast into the sea. 



Note. — There is no title to this article, and the locality is doubtful. 



A notice of the ?^z7/a?', /m/ar, and ottier rude tribes. Among them 

 the Yanadi-lribe are civilized, in some degree and like other people ; 

 but the others are in the rudest possible state. A chief of Palcad 

 (Paulgatcherry), in consequence of an a^>sociation formed with them, 

 was driven from his tribe. 



NoTE.—This is another trace of the singular people before adverted 

 to in the neighbourhood of Sri-hari-coita ; and part of the probable 

 Aborigines of the country. 



