. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. among the most priniitivt' hill tribes, the uarrative reports of the olUcevs of the Indian Survey are full of ethnographic and other curious information. Take fur example the account given by ^Ir. G. A. McGill, in 1882, of the Bishnoies of llaj. piitana, a class of people, he says, who live by themselves, and are seldom to !> found in the same village with "the o
. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. among the most priniitivt' hill tribes, the uarrative reports of the olUcevs of the Indian Survey are full of ethnographic and other curious information. Take fur example the account given by ^Ir. G. A. McGill, in 1882, of the Bishnoies of llaj. piitana, a class of people, he says, who live by themselves, and are seldom to !> found in the same village with "the other castes. ' These peojjle liohl saered every- thing animate and inanimate, carrying this belief so far that they never even out down a green tree ; they also do all in their power to prevent from doinp the same, and this is why they live apart from other people, so as not to witiiex the taking of life. The Bishnoies, uidike the rest of the inhabitants, strictly avdM drink, smoking and eating opiimi; this being prohibited to them by tiieir religion, They are also stringently enjoined to monogamy and to the performance of regular ablutions daily. Under all these circumstances, and as may be expected, the Blsh- noies are a well-to-do community, but are abhorred by the other ])eople, especialh as by their domestic and frugal habits they soon get rich, and are the owners of tbt; best lands in the country.' In one particular, the experience of the Indian Survey carries a lesson to this country. ' A constantly growing demand,' says General Walker, ' has risen of late years for new surveys on a large scale, iu supersession of the small scale surveys which were executed a generation or more ago. . The so-called topograpliicat surveys of those days were in reality geographical reconnaissances sufiicieut for all the requirements of the Indian atlas, and for general reproduction on small scales, but not for purposes which demand accurate delineation of minute detail.' We have
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