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The Migratory Races of India. 



[No. 39, 



II. The Migratory Races of India. By Assistant Surgeon Ed- 

 ward Balfour, Madras Army. 



The Coorroo. 



This seems to be a branch of the Korawa people, two divisions 

 of whom, the " Bajantri Korawa," and " Tiling Korawa," were 

 described by me in an article on the Migratory Tribes of India, 

 which appeared in Jameson's Edinburgh Journal for July 1843, 

 and was re-published by the Bengal Asiatic Society in their Journal 

 for July 1844 * 



I have been desirous of adding to the information which I then 

 communicated, but all the tribes, whom I have since met with, 

 have evinced so much timidity in their intercourse with civilized 

 people that little could be gathered from them, worthy of being 

 detailed ; and I have seen none of them more timid than the tribe 

 ■whom I am now describing which will account for the meagre in- 

 formation I am here capable of affording. 



This wandering race occupy the Ceded Districts and are called 

 by Mahomedans " Koorshe Wanloo ;" Telings give them the 

 names of " yerkel wanloo," "yera keedi" and " yera kelloo," and 



* The tribes then described by Mr. Balfour were ; The Gohur, the Bhowrie ; 

 the Taremook ; the Bajantri Korawa ; th^ Tiling Korawa; the Bhatoo, and the 

 Muddikpor. We would feel much indebted for any contributions to this branch 

 of ethnological inquiry, the importance of which cannot be better illustrated than 

 by quoting the remarks with which the editors of the Bengal Asiatic Society's 

 Journal, when re-printing Mr. Balfour's former paper, introduced it to their read- 

 ers. " We have copied the following interesting article from Jameson's Edin- 

 burgh Journal, No. 69 for 1843, and we add to it, from Dr. Voysey's Journals, 

 his brief vocabulary of the Goand and Cole words. We cannot, on this occasion, 

 refrain from again urging upon gentlemen, who may be so situated as to be able 

 to obtain these notices and vocabularies, the extreme importance and great utility 

 of doing so. It is impossible we think for the oldest resident in India to read 

 this curious article without being struck with the reflection of how much there 

 is in India of which we as yet know little or nothing, and yet the knowledge of 

 which is so important to us in every capacity."— -Ed. 



