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stock — cows attacked with it occasionally recover, but buffaloes 

 never ; Kttle or no medicine is used, as the disease is reckoned the 

 direct chastening of the SaJctis. 



The cow-pox also prevails in October ; excessive fat too is re- 

 garded as a disease. 



Stock is also subject to be attacked by worms and by a disease 

 of the liver — the liver fluke ? Although rather out of place it may 

 here be mentioned that the ponies of this Circar are miserable 

 little animals, and the donkiea the usual degenerate race of the 

 Deccan. 



There is a head Dhungur who settles with government, mediates 

 in caste disputed, and carries out the decision of punchayets under 

 the Zemindar. Telingees, called also Munnoowars from a degrad- 

 ing tradition of their origin ; that this low class should give name 

 to the country is parallelled by the same thing occurring in Grond- 

 wanah ; they are cultivators, and labourers they are protected by 

 the Telmas. 



Coolies. — This caste hangs loose on society ; they employ them- 

 selves in bringing in jungle produce, fruits, roots for food, and medi- 

 cine and honey, assist in the manufacture of iron, act as Pyadas ; 

 in troubled times they are robbers, and at all times thieves and 

 drunkards. The Telingana bearer, who is also a fisherman, is of this 

 caste. The coolies rent from year to year the tamarind and mango 

 trees from the heads of villages at half their produce, or a money rent. 



Dhers.^Axe similar to their brethren in other parts of India; 

 they are pyadas. 



Yellawars. — As Oopurwars they cultivate land — and as Beldars • 

 dig wells and clear out tanks. 



YerkuUwars. — This is a nomade tribe who live in huts made of 

 reeds, or of the leaves of the palmyra tree, and subsist on the flesh 

 of swine, game, and carrion, and a little grain they may get in bar- 

 ter for the mats and baskets they construct. They snare birds 

 with bird-lime, and they have a small breed of dogs, with which 

 they kill hares. They kill most of the dogs when young but retain 

 the bitches, to which, when they are intended for hunting, they give 

 a certain root that renders them barren ; they are a slender bodied 

 animal, of an active make, but with an ugly heavy head. Brah- 

 mins will not approach them, but the Jungum is more pliant, and 

 on the occasion of a death, for a present of some grain, he attends 



