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s. The bullock, _Hatadia_, devoted to the God _Balajee_, is an object of worship. In a long line of Brinjarri met by Mr. Pickering,[59] one of the females was carrying a dog, which neither a Hindu nor a Parsi would have done. Many of them are Sikhs. There are, certainly, three divisions of the Gohuri--the Chouhane,[60] the Rhatore, and the Powar, and probably-- _The Purmans_ are another branch of them; consisting of about seventy-five families of agriculturists on the Bombay islets. 2. _The Bhowri_, called also _Hirn-shikarri_ and _Hern-pardi_, though Bhowri is the native name, are hunters. They also fall into subordinate divisions. 3. _The Tarremuki_; so-called by themselves, but known in the Dekhan as _Ghissaris_, or _Bail-Kumbar_, and amongst the Mahrattas, as _Lohars_, are blacksmiths. 4. _The Korawi_, fall in tribes which neither eat with each other, nor intermarry, _viz._:-- _a._ The Bajantri, who are musicians. _b._ The Teling--basket-makers and prostitutes. _c._ The Kolla. _d._ The Soli. 5. _The Bhattu_, _Dummur_, or _Kollati_, are exorcists and exhibitors of feats of strength. 6. _The Muddikpur_, so called by themselves, though known under several other names, follow a variety of employments; some being ferrymen. All these tribes wander about the country without any permanent home, speak a peculiar dialect with a considerable proportion of Non-Sanskritic words, and preserve certain peculiarities of creed; though in different degrees--the Muddikpur being wholly or nearly pagan, the Tarremuki Brahminic. The wandering life of these, and other similar tribes is not, by itself, sufficient to justify us in separating them from the other Hindus. But it does not stand alone. The fragments of an earlier paganism, and the fragments of an earlier language are phenomena which must be taken in conjunction with it. These suggest the likelihood of the Gohuri, the Bhatti, and their like, being in the same category with the Khonds and Bhils, &c., _i.e._, representatives of the earlier and more exclusively Tamulian populations. If the gipsy language of England had, instead of its Indian elements, an equal number of words from the original British, it would present the same phenomena, and lead to the same inference as that which is drawn from the Bhatti, Bhowri, Tarremuki, and Gohuri vocabularies,[61] _viz._: the doctrine that fragments of the original population are to be sought for amongst the wander
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