Page:The People of India — a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan Vol 8.djvu/190

POLAYERS. other Europeans, established a school for Polayer children on the borders of the cantonment of Trevandrum, where they are taught several trades, as well as reading. Their ignorance in every thing showed a deplorable state for human beings to be in. Except as labourers they knew nothing: could not count, and had never seen a larger coin than a chukrum (less than one anna). It will be very long ere these poor wretches rise much above what they are at present: they are, however, a contented race, and number about 100,000."—Official Report.