. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . ving vent at intervals to a sepulchral cough. Dogsdo not bark at him, cats flee from him, owls and batswheel famiHarly round his head; your nukar log (servants)to a man and woman—keep on the best of terms withhim by reason of his knowing of all their little nocturnalgames and peccadilloes. He learns and knows many secrets, does the Ramooshee,and, like Mr. Tulkinghorn, he dislikes to share them withanybody. So soon as it is daylight he rolls himself up in someshed or outliouse for two or three
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . ving vent at intervals to a sepulchral cough. Dogsdo not bark at him, cats flee from him, owls and batswheel famiHarly round his head; your nukar log (servants)to a man and woman—keep on the best of terms withhim by reason of his knowing of all their little nocturnalgames and peccadilloes. He learns and knows many secrets, does the Ramooshee,and, like Mr. Tulkinghorn, he dislikes to share them withanybody. So soon as it is daylight he rolls himself up in someshed or outliouse for two or three hours of solid sleep,I after which he may be seen—and heard-gurgling and, clearing his throat cheerfully in the shadow of his lair. He is as honest as may be, at any rate he prevents any outsider from robbing you. I purposely refrain from describing the Bheels, Kolees,and Katodees of the Ghauts, because the two first tribesinhabit the Syadrees to the North of the Ramooshees hills;and the last the Western or Konkan side of the greatrange of mountains—none of them frequent the cit\ ofPoena. y. ITi oiw A?J) < m w w Qa: X IE A THOROUGHLY BAD LOT. 221 THE MIGRATORY AND PREDATORY TRIBES. Their number is legion. Oochlias * and Bamptias .-.—Thieves and pickpockets,who do nothing but steal, and never will do anything else. Kalians and • Booroods. — and mat-weavers^ who do some work, and the latter are fairly honest. Beldars and Patroo1s\—Quarrymen and stone-dres-sers, who are expert burglars, but very hardworking. Phdnsi Pdrdees or game snarers, who snare game;they may be met with poles on which are perched rowsof live pea-fowl with their eyes sewn up, and baskets oflive quail and partridges. They are the abomination of thesportsman, and know no seasons. Wadddrs or earth workers—the navvies of Western andSouthern India, who have made most of the earth embank-ments of all the railways. These have been reclaimedfrom evil courses by honest and highly remu
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