Kow, or ironsmiths.
Gotoo, or coppersmiths.
Then follow two military tribes.
Kosar, who are said originally to have been robbers.
Tepai, who can marry, or keep as concubines any Hindu women that have lost cast by eating unclean things.
Then follow three exceedingly low casts.
Puria, fishermen and basketmakers.
Bala, who remove offals and nastiness.
Chamkal, who are dressers of leather and shoemakers.
These casts can scarcely venture to draw near any other Hindu, but would consider themselves as much degraded, by eating, drinking, or cohabiting with a Musulman or Christian; and any of their women who should venture to commit an act of such uncleanness, would be severely punished, as would also be the infidel by whom she had been corrupted. This, however, does not prevent Hindu women of all ranks and casts from being sold as slaves to either Musulmans or Christians. A master or a parent has the power of selling his slave or child, whose consent is not asked, who thereby loses cast, and who has no alternative, but to adopt the religion of her new master. Such incongruities may astonish a person unacquainted with Hindus; and what may add to his surprise is, that, while at