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any objection to marry her. The Buntarare permitted to eat ani- 
mal food, and to drink spirituous liquors; they burn the dead, 
but seem to be entirely ignorant of a stale of future existence. 
<e All the south part of Tulava formerly belonged to the Ctimly 
Rajah, who pretends to be a Kshatri from the north of India. The 
manners of his family resemble those of the rajahs of Malayala. 
All the males keep Nair girls; but their children, who are called 
tambans, have no right to the succession. The eldest daughter in 
the female line cohabits with a Tulava brahmin; her sons become 
rajahs, and her eldest daughter continues the line of the family. 
Whenever she pleases, she changes her brahmin; the younger 
daughters also cohabit with brahmins, and produce a race of people 
called Bayllal, who have no right to the succession. The domi- 
nions of this family extended from the Chandra-giri river, to that 
on the north side of Cumley, and produced an annual revenue of 
fifteen thousand ikeri pagodas, about six thousand pounds. The 
rajah lives now in the country; but he has neither lands nor autho- 
rity. Before the last war he lived at Tellicherry, on a pension 
from the Company; which has been doubled since we got posses- 
sion of the country of his ancestors. 
“ In Tulava the state has no lands; the whole is private pro- 
perty: all the land-tax is now paid in money; but before the con- 
quest, part of it was demanded in rice, and other articles of con- 
sumption for the troops, at a low rate, which was fixed by the of- 
ficers of government: the accounts contain solely the tax which 
each proprietor ought to pay. When a man alienates part of his 
lands, he agrees with the purchaser to take a part of the tax, and 
then the revenue of the new proprietor is entered in the public ac- 
