[404] Tribes inhabiting the Neilgherry Hills, from the rough Notes of a German Missionary. (Madras, 1856.)
[405] Vocabulary of the Dialect spoken by the Todars of the Nilagiri Mountains, by the Rev. F. Metz, of the German Evangelical Mission. (Madras, 1857.)
[406] Antiquities of the Neilgherry Hills, by Captain H. Congreve, 1847. Also, Caldwell's Comparative Dravidian Grammar. The German missionaries believe that these cairns were the work of the Kurumbers, another wild hill tribe.
[407] Todars pay two taxes to Government in return, on female buffaloes and on grazing land, both small in amount.
[408] Raggee, however, is the least nourishing of all the cereals, although it forms the chief part of the diet of the poorer classes in Mysore and on the Neilgherries. In good seasons it yields 120-fold, but it is very poor fare.
[409] In 1807 Buchanan mentioned the Badagas of the Neilgherries, as gatherers of honey and wax in the hills south of Wynaad.—ii. p. 246 and p. 273.
[410] Literally "one stone village."
[411] The great Tamil scholar.
[412] Hooli, a tiger in the Badaga language; and cul, a rock or stone in Tamil and Canarese. Pili is a tiger in Tamil.
[413] Mr. Fowler, in his evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons, gave 2500 to 4000 feet as the most favourable elevation for the growth of coffee.