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 THE INDIAN ASTTQUATIY. ns'uicuiitiL, 1876, Sanskrit writings, but MB Tint, in a prwition to givo chapter and verse. Throe. ;jIi"iit C ami Southern KhAndeidi they arc village w men ami thik&rt*, And paid labourers for the cultivating end trading cartes j often, indeed, under our "Reign of Law/" reduced to A state of personal slavery or little better, and living i a yoke of stamped paper that enters into the soul of the poor domi-savage as I^- r as could fetters of iron In the S » I p u r n monn- tains to thu nurtb uud thu dn I' • ; a of the west they form often Ibe whole populiitieu of remote jangle Tillages. T east und nouih-eiwt they give place to the Koli in the plain?, and in tbo bill* to Uio T A r v 1, but rth-east they mn cm quita into I; Isluuir, and bow imieh Farther I know not. They are numerous along: ihni part of the S a t ui a 1 a range in tbo south- went which lies between gsih and live great gap of Munmar through which the G. 2 IV Rftltw*y run i in tluiL direction tliCry extend aa for huuth ax thu Pumi District, but keeping' (as far as mj limited knowledge of the Numk and Ahmad, nagnr Cnlleeioratea allow* me to state) ruLber to thu plains lliau to I be SaUyidri 11 ilk, ua which, I fancy, I be presence of a miii aboriginal race, kbfl Hill IC - 1 1 -, 1 fur them. Among op- | UTC r a country nearly a* largu as Ireland, and nub- jeut to conndiiTmblfl ', • and nonri^hment,* then u rally various types of Mppoftrftncc and even of character. The It hi I Is of the Suhyiulri And SfctmalA aro generally much superior in physique, features, and intelligence to those of tbu SaL- purAs and Central Khandcsb, and in tbo rank* of the i$h til Corps at DJmruniguiii one mny see, amongst dwarfish figures sunn canted by luces which almost suggest tin- A I 'H call, many wnll- built men, and even soiuo toll and handsome ones with regular features and watt hair. Like must Indian nines, whether Aryan or aboriginal, tiny a* at or fami- lies having different surnames, bat tbey don't mcuti a, except in the case of the " Mewus Chiefs" of the west, who are always spoken of by their rniaily name* of WasawiL, Wulvi* Piirri, Ac. Probably no race in this Presidency ban given . * I nrweobar a party of Bhlti* who omumie-l • murder in Pun* (wing "ipottod" u (raadsren fawn Shim>iub bj more trouble to reduce to order, considering its numbers. The Marilthua, never tolerant of forest tribes, appear to bfl BbJlll hku wild beasts, and the latter seem to have ited the position, the result of which was a war of raids and daeoitifis on thn ana kiiIr, and extermination by nil possiblo means on the other. The favourite iiiAUCttuvre of the MnrJUha leaders was to humbug their simple adversaries)! into coming: in to make peace, nnd ratify the treaty with a grand carouse'* >m| ■ "Bhill in narrating one of these eei*^#, "that our people can never resist an offer of litpaor. '.' The invariable ' graee after I the entertainment was it whole- wile mftgftero gt i nog and in- toxicated savages,— generally by precipe them over a cliff or into wells* A. ruiv customed for Bever&l generation* to regard these as the main choroeterifctio of orgonired government and civilized society might be ex- pected tn give tirmblo to the tirnt Rntish ofHeurs who wane into contact with them. Aeconi the early bintory of Kbandesh as a Britunh district is nuts long record ol ling raids n ml tVuitItt.i (nirsuits varied with on occasional bUnuiJi or exeoutian. Thn HhillK derived groat advantage from tbo natural wihlness of pAt. o4 tbo en m dciolatien to which all of it. hnd bceu reiluced by serving aa a cwtk] tbu later wars of the Marat hi. empire, an 4 Hi" deadly iinheakhinesa of the jungle posts* Of one of these, 3f a w a p u r, tbere is a legend lliii ufter a certain detachment bad been there for a few montlis tbo native civil official in eburgo curled in thirir arms and aeconi remenU to bead-quarters with s brief und wtiwr report afaml thu men wcro * hhnlit jtmW (expended): and e.ven now native subordinates often resign ordered there cm duty* Thin atate of things was finally ti-rminatcd by tbo raising of the KhAndr-xh Itli'll Corpa, and tbo adoption of Tne&vnrt* to induce tha Bbtils to'conio in* for pardon and settte down to audi eultivttUutt as they could manage, in which the c/hu f mover was tbo late Gvnvnd (Ihcu CapUun) Uulram, whosa nnnw is still famous among the prople °f ^- and connected with n heap of Ji which will no doubt jnstify some euhenieriat of tlio future in proving him to bo Um nMuiii« of ibrtr dlaacf, irhkh mutjuan] t»j«t nut aa* t#riMc iatu the dirt of tL* tocui ilangtrrous osimh*.