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The Neilgherry Mountains. 



[No. 34, 



of the European and other inhabitants of the three settlements. The 

 following is the summary. 



Europeans including Children 

 East Indians do. do. . 



Hindoos do. do. 

 Mussulmauns do. do. . 



Pariahs do. do. . 



Todars 

 Burghers 

 I Kothers 

 Erulars 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



Total Population of the Neilgherries. 



Souls. 



0 

 0 



3045 

 901 

 4941 



337 

 6569 

 307 

 461 



Souls. 



342 

 154 



8,887 



7,674 



17,057 



Deducting from the total area of the plateau, that portion lying to 

 the westward of the Pykara, or Moyaar river, which I have else- 

 where described as almost entirely uninhabited, there remains a space 

 of 420 square miles over which this population is distributed, giving 

 a proportion of 40 souls to one square mile. 



For the reasons already stated under the preceding head, no place 

 or number can be assigned to the tribe of Coorumburs in this state- 

 ment. Their number must however be very insignificant, proba- 



Empioyment above 2 or 300 souls. With the excep- 



tion of the Todars, who pass their days in ut- 

 ter idleness, all the ^.aboriginal tribes, or mountaineers of the 

 Neilgherries, devote themselves to agricultural pursuits. With 

 these duties the Kothers alone combine those of the artizan in a 

 humble way, as will be treated of in describing the people of that 

 tribe. 



^ ^ ^ , This remarkable race differ in almost every 



The Todars, or Toda- 

 wars. essential respect from all other tribes of the na- 



^ ^ , , ^ tives of Hindustan, and their singular character- 



Total number 337 souls. , ° 



istics and strange habits have given rise to much 



speculation as to their origin and history. As no clue has however 

 yet been discovered either in the form of monuments, coins, or even 

 in their own traditions, by which research could be directed, all theo- 

 ries broached upon the subject cannot be otherwise than vain and 

 illusory, especially those which have been based upon the assump- 

 tion that the images, bones and other relics which are found in 



