April — skpt, 1858.] Kota Vocabulary, 



Work (I) "g^^t-^ kekikape. 



Worm *yfd~B puve. 



Y. 



43 



Yawn 



Year 



Yes 



Yesterday- 

 Yield 

 Yoke 

 Young 



©3D sflrg) [h f> dvat vitttcpe, 



CO 



var shame. 



P cSSS^ *§ nii/are. 

 •^p^^-f) vobbakape. 



iF^sJB-? jauvdne. 



The letter ed placed under other letters, for instance 

 II <! 5 : ^S), has a sound peculiar to the Hill tribes, something 

 like lp in tamil, but not exactly so. It will be observed 

 how many words terminate in e (&). The frequent occur- 

 rence of this vowel, which the Kotas utter in a nasal 

 pronunciation, makes their language any thing but agreable 

 to the ear. 



OCCUPATION OF THE HILL TRIBES. 



Nearly the whole life of a Toda is spent in idle- 

 ness. Except milking the Buffaloes and making ghee from 

 the produce of their herds, no real work is done by the 

 Todas. Even the milk business is to the greater part 



