Page:The People of India — a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan Vol 8.djvu/215

KHONDS IN WAR DRESS. Ooryas, &c., have driven them from the narrow fertile belt between these mountains and the sea, while on the western side of the Ghauts the Gonds from Nagpoor have encroached to the very foot of the hills. At present, villages of both Ooryas and Khonds are scattered through the wide and dense forests of Patna, Kalahundy, Jeypoor, Kuriall, and Nowagudda. No Khonds, however, are to be found westward of Kuriall and Nowagudda. The space over which the wild tribe is scattered extends from the north of the Mahaniuddy to as far south as the river Godavery. Between these points the country is divided into forty or fifty petty principalities, ruled over by chiefs of the Oorya caste."