Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7

part in the jungles, beneath rocks, in caves, or in low huts, and

shift from one spot to another. At the season of the cardamom crop, they come down to the plains once a week with the produce. They are said to carry off cardamoms to the Mysore frontier, and sell them fraudulently to contractors or merchants. They make fire traces for the Forest Department.

Except in stature, t...