On these hills are scattered tribes of a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />very different <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#s">race</del> <add place="superlinear">origin</add> </subst>, the Kols & Bheels <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of central <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName>; a very timid race, who <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />segregate themselves from one another <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& all other people. These are no doubt, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />like the numerous scattered tribes along <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the base of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">Himalayah</placeName>, the remote <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />parts of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">Vindhya</placeName>, the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="efafc657-3123-4f3e-afc6-573123df3e9b" corresp="#e6e41bd1-8d06-465e-a41b-d18d06965e8e" type="editorialNote">Ghats</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e6e41bd1-8d06-465e-a41b-d18d06965e8e" corresp="#efafc657-3123-4f3e-afc6-573123df3e9b" type="editorial">Die <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020872 https://www.geonames.org/1252876">Westghats</placeName> und <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020486 https://www.geonames.org/1272125">Eastghats</placeName> des <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">indischen</placeName> Subkontinents.</note> of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">Peninsula</placeName> &c: – all remains of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />original Tamulian stock, who ever <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />since the Arian Invasion, have retained <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a position in the fastnesses of the mountains <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& malarious jungles. Such is the opinion <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of my friend Mr. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName>, undoubtedly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the best authority on these subjects & who <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is now collecting vocabularies of all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />these scattered tribes throughout <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName>. A <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />noble work which none is better able to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />perform.