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ed by the Putwarree. Their curse is dreaded by the Coonbeea 

 who sometimes earn it by cheating them of their dues. They 

 entertain a deep animosity towards the Dhungurs. The shriek 

 of the jackall, when at their evening meals, startles and alarms 

 them as a bad omen, and they even cast away their food on hearing 

 it. They speak Teloogoo. 



Corewars. — This is a savage tribe inhabiting the sand-stone 

 hills about Pakhall and the country towards the Grodavery ; they 

 are the subjects of the Boputtee, but eat beef and are not ac- 

 knowledged as Hindoos ; they are capable of great fatigue. Save 

 a few balls made up of the flour of the mallrva, and tobacco, 

 they go long journies without any other sustenance. 



Mahrattas. — Mahratta emigrants are numerous in the western 

 part of the Circar, to which they came some thirty or forty 

 years ago. They have introduced into Telingana white jowar- 

 ree, black moongh, and the sweet cucumber. Their lands are 

 rented on the Istarva cowl, which after a few years becomes a 

 fixed rent. They .live in huts of wattle and dab which they can 

 easily move to another spot, v/hen, from caprice of their own, or 

 breach of faith on the part of the Zemindar, they choose to do so. 

 Their Putwarree is a Teloogoo Brahmin and their artizans are Te- 

 loogoo, but their head man is invariably a Mahratta, and he gets for 

 his trouble a certain portion of land rent free. They are considered 

 good agriculturists, and are sober and temperate, but being strangers, 

 v/ithout any feelings of local attachment, they frequently, without 

 much cause of oiFence, shift their quarters. They eat more bread 

 than the Telinghee Ooonbees, and the fruit of the palmyra tree is 

 particularly relished by them. 



Shopkeepers and other Tradesmen. — These are all regarded as 

 on the Mooturfa, and pay a money rent to government in the 

 large villages where they usually congregate, with the exception of 

 the Bunnyahs and Kullals who are found in most. The chief of 

 these is the Bunnyah, who, besides being engaged in the retail of 

 goods of every description, lends money to the ryots on the guaran- 

 tee of the Putwarree. The interest to be paid is 1 J per cent, per 

 month, but they are more frequently paid in kind than in money. 

 Thus the Coonbee, of his crop, reserves exclusively for i\\em.,sesamu'm, 

 castor oil seed, gram and moongh; the Dhungurs always repay in 

 kind ; and the KuUal, for fifteen gundhas lent, such is the mode of 



