IS38.] 



Report on the Mackenzie Manmeripts. 



303 



selling, or otherwise transferring, landed property. This subject has 

 more than once before occurred, in documents abstracted from the Malay- 

 alam language : these questions appear to me to have been prepared un- 

 der directions from the late Mr, Ellis, and transmitted to Malayalam, for 

 solution by Col. Mackenzie's agent, named Nitala Narayana. 



There is appended to this paper a brief description of the plough used 

 in Malay alam. It is merely an addendum. 



Account of the Arasanmar of Peruvantan in Malayalam. 



The account of the Arasanmar is here limited to the notice of a few 

 local customs, chiefly those of marriage. There is a better, and fuller, 

 paper concerning them, in a preceding doeurflent, (See MS, book, No« 

 11, section 4). 



Section 7' Account of the wild people (or foresters) in the Nili-malai 

 hills, near Travancore, 



This account is stated to have been obtained while journeying 

 on the road towards Savari-malai, a hill so called. If those people see 

 any one they hold no intercourse. They are deformed, with pot-bellies^ 

 and very long hair. They have a sort of commerce by barter. Their 

 food is roots, &c. They are so shy of strangers that no dilFerence of 

 sexes, or different castes, was observable. The paper is brief. 



Section 10. Account of the Arasanmar residing on the Savari Malai. 



The different names of classes among them are specified ; one of which 

 is Panikan, that has heretofore occurred in Malayalam papers. A few 

 local customs are stated, chiefly those attendant on marriages ; the docu- 

 ment breaks off abruptly. 



Section 9. Account of the Polaiyar, a low tribe, residing on Canchar- 

 palli ; and other hills, near it, in Malayalam. 



This paper is described as a poem by Muttusdmi of the southern Cailasa 

 (Pyney ?) in the Tinnevelly district. The language is good prose ; but 

 the contents are brief. When Parasu Rama had made slaughter in his 

 wars, the widows lamented their being without husbands ; and besought 

 him to supply others, which he effected by calling in strangers ; from 



