Page:The People of India — a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan Vol 4.djvu/44

GHOLAM MAHOMED. their chief diet is bread and vegetables of all kinds. Like the Bhuttees they never wear trousers, but use the loongee, or waist cloth, which is generally blue, checked, striped, or plain, with a broad border of darker blue, red, or yellow.

There can be little doubt that the poverty of their own country, and its comparatively small area of culturable land, forced these peculiar tribes to emigrate; but their most curious feature, perhaps is, that they have preserved for so many centuries their original distinct character.