[55] From Callaway's "Translation of the Kolán Nattannawa."
[56] Book iii. §. 99.
[57] The same, probably, is the case with the Bidi of Java.
[58] From this language, I imagine that the three following words have come into the English—two of them being slang and one a sporting term—rum, cove, jockey.
[59] "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal," No. 145.
[60] These names introduce a difficulty: They are Rajpút as well.
[61] All of which may be found in the paper already quoted; and all of which contain numerous Tamul roots.
[62] Since this was written Major-General Briggs' valuable paper on the Aboriginal Tribes of India, has been published in "Transactions of the British Association," &c., for 1851. Having been seen in MS. by the present writer it has been freely used.