CHAPTER XIII 
AN ACCOUNT OF THE INHABITANTS IN THE 
KINGDOM OF TRAVENCORE; 
AND PARTICULARLY OF THE BRAHMINS, NAIRS, AND POOLEAHS, 
IN THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE MALABAR COAST. 
1773. 
In links of steel, here superstition binds 
The unsuspecting native; to his caste 
Tethers him ; cramps his powers, condemns to ply. 
With joyless hands, the trade his sires have plied 
For centuries; proscribes all hope of change! 
Gisborne, 
