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MYSORE. 99 piece of string. The women are rarely seen, and do not work with the men. A branch of the Kurubas, called the Jenu (Honey) Kurubas, subsist almost entirely on forest products, and occupy theniselves in collecting honey in the jungle. Having found out the tree where the combs are, they climb an adjoining tree, and, placing a pole between the two, contrive to creep along it with a torch in their hand, and then sinoke out the bees. Both inen and women of this sub-tribe are very unprepossessing in appearance, their features being coarse and irregular, and their hair hanging down in a dishevelled mass. The Iraligars seem to be another tribe closely resembling the Jenu Kurubas. The Soligars are a secluded race, who speak Kánarese; they are remarkable for their keenness of sight, and skill in tracking wild animals. In the Malnád, the aborigines are called Holiaru (from the Kanarese word hola, a field), and have from time immemorial been rural serfs, attached to the farms of the feudal head-men. One branch, called Mannálu (froin mannu, land, and ilu, a slave), used to be sold with the land, and were specified in the leases; while another, called Honnálu (from honnu, gold), were transferable with or without the soil. The price of a man and woman was from £4 to £5; and it was calculated that these, with a pair of bullocks, could cultivate 10 acres of land. Their master maintained thein, giving them 2 lbs. of rice daily, with double this amount on feast-days, and an annual supply of clothes and blankets, to which were added presents on marriage. The children who were born belonged to the lord of the soil. The Holiaru live in huts in the neighbourhood of the farms, and generally possess small gardens for kitchen produce. They are a stout and healthy race, with broad features and flat faces, and generally carry about with them a wood-knife. The Wokliga cultivators are divided into more than 50 sub-classes ; they form the backbone of the population, and for skill and industry are unsurpassed by any agriculturists of India. The majority of Mysore Brahmans belong to one or other of the Pancha Dravida or five southern tribes, namely—(1) Karnataka, (2) Telinga or Andhra, (3) Dravida or Tamil, (4) Marátlá, and (5) Gujaráthí. These names indicate the countries from which the various sects originally came; and they still use their native languages as their "house-tongue' in their own homes, though, of course, they speak Kánarese elsewhere. Hindi Sects.—The three great sects of orthodox Hindus are called respectively-(1) Smárta, (2) Madhava, and (3) Srí Vaishnava. The Smarta hold that the creature is not separate from the Creator, but partakes of His essence, the doctrine hence being called advaitam; the Madhava, on the contrary, say that the Creator and His creatures are separate, their doctrine being called dvaitam (dualism); whilst the third