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Satvas, and some Vaishnavas. Of the fifth class nothing is mentioned 

 except that they assimilate more closely to the Saivas among the Hindus. 

 A list of towns, with details as to fields under cultivation, is appended. 



4. Account of Co?icla, Camhedu, Goluconda, and Gudam. The opening 

 part of this paper has a detail of rivers, or streams, by which the country 

 is watered and fertilized ; with notice of paths, or tracks, amidst the 

 mountains. In reference especially to the village of Gudam, it adverts 

 to the before-mentioned Nila Canfha, ascribing to him the first settle- 

 ment, and partial civilization. From his Hindu-nsime, it would appear, 

 that he was a foreign colonist, who brought the wild tribes of aborigines 

 to submit to his guidance. The whole of the above mentioned districts 

 submitted to his rule. Details of local chiefs occur, and occasionally no- 

 tice of intercommunications with the Gaja-pati, and Gana-pati princes. 

 But the notices given are evidently only of what may, by indulgence, be 

 termed baronial families. Beyond family successions, alliances, or dis- 

 cords, there is nothing of consequence. 



5. Account of the Tohi festival among the Savaralu, the Conda-savaralUf 

 and MaUjala-savaralu. 



This festival is annually held, and forty or fifty villages unite in its cele- 

 bration ; choosing one village by turn for the site of operation. It is done 

 in honor of Jagrata-devata the local numen. According to this paper 

 they make the most important part of the preparation four or five months 

 before the time fixed on for the festival : and that by selecting some 

 friendless man, or woman, of the age of twenty-five, or twenty-six years ; 

 who being without relations or protectors, is seized and put into confine- 

 ment, being highly fed, and allowed the free use of intoxicating bever- 

 age. At the time of sacrifice, this victim is taken out in public procession, 

 for eight or nine successive days, proceeding round the village wherein 

 the sacrifice is to be held. The precise act is held at four o'clock in the 

 morning, or an hour or two before sunrise. The victim is then killed by 

 a weapon herein termed Ganda-godali, and the blood is used as an offer- 

 ing to the aforesaid idol. Nothing is herein mentioned of eating the flesh 

 of the victim. The person is always kept in a state of intoxication ; and is 

 usually insensible at the time of sacrifice. The people imagine that by 

 this sacrifice they increase the fertility of their lands, and render their vil- 

 lages more valuable. 



Eemakk. — The papers of this fragment are damaged ; but with exception 

 of the last they do not seem of such importance as to claim restoration. In 

 this last section I have unexpectedly met with the account of those 

 human sacrifices, which when lately* made public in the Goomsoor 

 campaign created so great a sensation. The details herein given corres- 

 pond substantially with those then announced; the sole fact of Cannibal- 



♦ This abstract was first made in 1838. 



