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like manner under tents fixed by bamboo poles and covered 
with mats made of reed grass. They are also continually 
roaming about, avoiding villages and towns and preferriag 
to pitch their tents in some open ground a few mUes distant 
from inhabited places, only to strike them again after a 
few days' stay. They thus wander over Hyderabad, the 
Ceded Districts, and other adjacent provinces. Their tents 
of which every family possesses a separate one, with a few 
among the predial slaves in Kurg imder the name of Yerrwanroo, i.e., 
Erra-vdndlu, ? red men, or Yevaru q.v. or Yerlan, or Erehlen, ( ? ) also 
specified amongst, the servile races of Kurg." 
Further see " The lligratory Kaces of India," by Assistant Surgeon 
Edward Balfour, Madras Anuy, in the Madras Journal of Literature and 
Science, vol. XVII (1857), pp. 4-9 : " The Coorroo, This seems to be a 
branch of the Korawa people, two divisions of whom . . were described by 
me in an article on the Migratory Tribes of India . . This wandering race 
occupy the Ceded Districts and are called by Mahomedans ' Koorshe 
Wanloo Telings gfive them the names of ' Yerkel wanloo,' ' Yera keedi,' 
and ' Yera kelloo,' and the Aravas know them as Coortee ; but their designa- 
tion among themselves is Coorroo, the rr being pronounced by them with 
a loud thrilling sound. I believe them to be a branch of the Korawa 
people from the similarity of their customs, and fi-om their using similar 
articles of diet, but the term korawa was quite new to this community, 
who, although familiar with the appellations of the Mahomedans and 
Hindoos, told me that Coorroo was the only name they ever designated 
themselves by . . They live in huts constructed of mats, very neatly woven 
from a long grass, named in Telagoo " zamboo," which grows in the beds of 
tanks, and which they spread over a bamboo frame work. They are inces- 
santly on the move, wandering about the countrj-, and they never reside 
inside of towns, but pitch their little camps on open plains three or four miles 
from some inhabited place. They rarely remain above two or three days in 
one spot and their joiu-neys are of considerable length. The value of one of 
their huts would hardly amount to half a rupee (one shilling), asses, goats 
and pigs constitute their wealth ; the two last of these they use as food and 
sell for money in towns. They, likewise, earn a little by selling grass mats 
and baskets made of canes and bamboos, the handy-work of the men, but 
which are sold by the women . . . Each family in their communities lives 
apart in its own hut, constructed, as above-mentioned, by the mats woven 
by themselves. . The men informed me that they usually marry about the 
time that their mustaches appe ir (18 years of age ?) with women who have 
attained maturity, and a bi ide is never taken to hor husband's hut before two 
months after this period of her life. They marry one wife only, but they can 
keep as many of their women as thoy choose. The greatest number, however, 
that any of my informants remembered to have seen in one man's hut, was 
one wife ;uid three kept women ; this latter class being in general widows. . . 
