1849.] 



Circar of Warungul. 



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ed at in a country where a man can get drunk for a pice and a half ; 

 the women also drink. 



Languages languages spoken in the Circar the 



most prevalent is the Teloogoo, but it is said 

 to be a corrupt dialect, not to be compared in purity with the lan- 

 guage of the coast. All Putwarrees' and Bunnyahs' accounts are kept 

 in it, and it is the general language of communication. Hindoostani 

 is spoken by the Government employes, by the Yellawars, and often, 

 not alwaj^s, by the Putwarrees. Persian is used in written commu- 

 nications by the higher functionaries. 



Mahratta is spoken by the Mahrattas, and Canarese by the Mud« 

 wacherry Brahmins and the Correwars, the clients of the Dhungurs. 

 A very corrupt Tamool is spoken by the Yerkulwars. 



Health and Dis- The granitic country is salubrious, but the 

 sandstone has a very indifferent reputation. Fe- 

 vers, spleen, &c. are there very common. The corps and squad- 

 ron of cavalry stationed in the neighbourhood of Warungul has en- 

 joyed excellent health since being cantoned there. Cholera is said 

 to visit the country epidemically every four or five years. The last 

 time it raged with great severity was in 1845, when it numbered 

 a large proportion of Mahometans among its victims, a fact observ- 

 ed in other and distant parts of the country. A patient attacked with 

 cholera trusts little to the power of remedies, the chastising Salcti is 

 sought to be propitiated, and gifts are promised on condition of his 

 being spared. Abstinence is greatly relief on in fevers, frequently 

 no other means are taken to cure it. The Hakeems destroy the 

 effects of many valuable drugs within their reach by subjecting them 

 to the action of heat, fancying that the caput mortuum of charcoal 

 that remains after combustion contains all the properties of the re- 

 medies they put into the pot. 



In most larffe villages there is a schoolmas- 

 Education. , „ -, 



ter wholly dependent on fees and giits, who 



professes to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. All castes 



without distinction are admitted to the school from the Brahmin to 



the Zeengar (saddler). Religion is not inculcated, that task being 



left to the priests of the different sects. The schoolmaster is usually 



a Brahmin. He may derive a couple of annas a month from each 



pupil, with a gift of grain as can be afforded. The pupil is first 



