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Domestic Animals. 



The white cattle of Telinganah have already been mentioned^ 

 they are found in the Warungul, Elgundel, Kummemmett, and 

 Kanigheer Sircars. At Maiduck the cattle are of a very inferior 

 breed, being small and apparently of a stunted growth, and little 

 adapted for carriage or draught, they are of all colours ; towards 

 the Kistnah the Telinganah cattle appear to be improved by a cross 

 with the JNTellore breed, they are strong and well shaped. The 

 Maiduck buffaloes on the other hand are superior animals to those 

 found to the westward and the south. 



Sheep. — There are two breeds of sheep, one the common sheep 

 differing little from the European variety save in size, being much 

 smaller, the other an animal that, in some respects, more resembles 

 a goat than a sheep, having hair instead of wool, but the shape of 

 its head, its horizontal horns, and other points of resemblance de- 

 termine it to be a sheep. This breed is prevalent in Kummum, 

 Eamgheer and the Kistnah Sircars, its coat is without value, but 

 it is a larger animal than its congener, and more easily fattened ; 

 the wool yielded by the first variety although of no great fineness, 

 is manufactured into carpets, cumlies, &c. 



The goats are numerous but present no peculiarity. 



The donkey and pony are, in all the Sircars, miserably inferior 

 animals with every mark of degeneration. 



The hog is the same unclean shapeless and loathsome animal as 

 it is throughout India, acting as scavengers to the villages, and 

 occasionally used for food by the lowest and most degraded castes. 



There is nothing peculiar about the poultry, there is no objec- 

 tion to rearing them for food, such as exists in the Mahrattah 

 country, they are eaten by all castes save Brahmins and Bunnyahs, 

 and a few others who affect high caste. Ducks and geese are ne- 

 ver reared. 



Population. 



The Brahmins are divided into Swamarts, Eamannj, and Mud- 

 wacharee, the first followers of Siva, the two last Vaishnavi's, these 

 are divided into a number of subsccts which again are further sub- 

 divided. The Swamarts, who hold the first veda in the highest ve- 

 neration and who are supposed to follow itr: precepts, are called 



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