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of persons could have lived. I know also, that the man, in CHAPTER 
other respects, is not to be trusted. Perhaps we may safely admit 
the former population of the island to have amounted to 150,000 May20,.&c. 
persons ; who were entirely supported by the court and army, 
scarcely any manufactures having been established. By the re- 
moval of the court, and the diminished number of the troops, the 
inhabitants have been reduced to the necessity of leaving the island ; 
which is still a very inconvenient place for Europeans ; all their 
servants, and the most common artificers, being people from Madras , 
who charge the most extravagant wages. Excellent meat and good 
vegetables are to be had in abundance ; but, bread being dear, the 
private soldiers are in general under the necessity of eating rice. 
In this country, the division of the people into what are called Eddagai and 
J . Ballagai, or 
the left and right hand sides, or Eddagai and hallagai , is produc- left and right 
tive of more considerable effects than at anyplace that I have seen sldes - 
in India, although among the Hindus it is generally known. 
The tribes, or casts, comprehended in the Eddagai , or left hand 
side, are nine. 
1. Panchala , comprehending, 
1. The Cubbinadam , or blacksmiths. 
2. Badiga , carpenters. 
3. Cunsugaru, coppersmiths. 
4. CuV badiga , masons. 
5. Ax ala, gold and silversmiths. 
g. Bheri chitty , merchants, who pretend to be of the Vdisya cast, 
3. Devanga, a class of weavers. 
4. Heganigaru , oilmakers, who use two oxen in their mills. 
5. Gollur , or Golawanlu, who transport nyney, 
6. Paliwanlu *] two tribes of cultivators, who are not of Karna„ 
7. Palawanlu J taca origin. 
8. Baydaru , hunters. 
9. Madigaru, tanners or shoemakers. The Panchala command 
the whole party ; and the Madigaru , in all disputes, form the most 
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