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animal’s body. Although the killing an animal of this kind is by all CHAPTER 
Hindus considered as a kind of murder, I know no creature, whose 
sufferings equal those of the labouring cattle of Hindustan. 
Before the fatal disease of last year, the usual price of a middling 
ox five years old, was from 25 to 30 Fanams , or from Km. 9\d. to 
ll. 06’. Hr/.; and of a cow, from 20 to 25 Fanams, or from 13$. 5d. 
to 1(m. 9id. The price of an ox is now 40 Fanams, or ll. 6s. 10 d.; 
•and of a cow, 30 Fanams , or ll. 0s. \\d. 
In this hilly tract, there is a race of men called by the other na- Cad’Erili- 
tives Cad ’ Eriligaru ; but who call themselves Cad Chensu. Here 
they live in little huts near the villages, and have a small piece of 
blanket, or cotton cloth, to cover their nakedness. They are re- 
conciled to the other natives, and pay a trifling capitation tax to 
government. Where the woods are more extensive, they are ter- 
rified at the sight of any civilized being, and live absolutely with- 
out any clothing, but cover their nakedness with a few leaves. In 
these forests they dwell in caves, or under bushes, which they make 
a better shelter from the weather, by adding small branches from 
other trees. When the civilized part of this tribe go into the woods 
to visit their relations, or to trade with them, they must throw off 
their rags, lest they should be mistaken for a villager, in which 
case none of the Chensu would approach. 
The language of the Chensu is a dialect of the Tamul, with oc- 
casionally a few Karnata or Telinga words intermixed ; but their 
accent is so different from that of Madras, that my servants did not 
at first understand what they said. Their original country, they 
say, is the Animalya forest below the Ghats, which. is confirmed by 
their dialect. Those who live in the villages have taken the Pan- 
chaw Bamjigaru as their chiefs ; they trade chiefly with them, and 
call them their Swamis, or lords; but, although they have learned to 
invoke the name of Sim , they do not wear the Lingam. Those in 
the woods have either no religion, or some simple one with which 
those here are unacquainted. The people of this country attribute 
