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NELLORE. 265 15, 267; Ambattans (barbers), 12,869 ; Vánnáns (washermen), 33,070; others (outcastes, etc.), 317,759. The Muhammadans are sub-divided as follows :- Arabs, 17; Labbais, 237; Mughals, 59; Patláns, 239; Sayyids, 326; Shaikhs, 2290 ; 'others,' 58,176. Of the Christians (20,794), 8833 are returned as Protestants; 7498 as Baptists ; 946 as Roman Catholics; and 3517 profess other creeds. The Census divides the male population into six main groups as regards occupation :-(1) l'rofessional class, including State officials of every kind, and members of the learned professions, 17,655; (2) domestic servants, inn and lodging keepers, 2821; (3) commercial class, including bankers, merchants, carriers, etc., 17,498; (+) agricultural and pastoral class, including gardeners, 273,964; (5) industrial class, including all manufacturers and artisans, 100,189; and (6) indefinite and non-productive class, comprising all male children, general labourers, and persons of unspecified occupation, 203,205. Of the 1688 towns and villages in Nellore District, in 1881, 375 contained less than two hundred inhabitants; 493 from two to five hundred; 466 from five hundred to one thousand; 259 from one to two thousand ; 60 from two to three thousand; 27 from three thousand to five thousand; 7 from five to ten thousand ; 1 from twenty thousand to fifty thousand. The following are the most considerable towns :NELLORE (27,505); ONGOLE (9200); VENKATAGIRI (7989); KANDUKUR (6601); ADDANKI (6481); KAVALI (1927); and GUDUR (4862). Nellore and Ongole are municipalities with an aggregate income in 1882-83 of 4779; incidence of municipal taxation in Nellore, is. 6 d., and in Ongole, is. 5 d. Four Christian missions are established in the District-(1) the Roman Catholic Mission, which has a chapel, with an endowment from land of about £54 a year; (2) the American Baptist Mission, which dates from 1870, and has 3 stations; (3) the school at Nellore town for both boys and girls, made over to the Free Church of Scotland Mission in 1848; and (4) the Hermansburg Lutheran Mission, founded in 1865, which now possesses 8 stations, with 12 missionaries from Germany. Among the wild or aboriginal tribes of Nellore, the Vanadis are probably the most numerous, but the Census of 1881 enumerates only 148. They numbered 20,000 in 1865, and were to be found in all parts of the District, except in the extreme north; but the little colony in the island of Sriharikota has attracted special interest. In 1835, when this island first came into the possession of Government, the Vanadis were found in the most degraded state of savagery. Government instituted measures to ameliorate their condition, and to wean then from their half-savage state ; but they still prefer their wild life in the jungles, and refuse to cultivate the soil or rear cattle. They are a