These people eat the flesh of all animals except the cow, from which they abstain out of deference to the Dhenkanal raja, whose lands they are per mitted to live on rent-free, on condition of supply ing him, when required, with ardemespirits, which they distil from mahwa flowers and wild honey, which is very plentiful in those jungles. The men, also, are bound to serve him as coolies for the conveyance of his baggage when he tmvels through the district, and to beat the jungle when lie hunts, which latter duty they consider a pastime ; as, next to killing game themselves, their greatest pleasure is to see it killed by others. Their quickness of sight, too, in tracking a wounded animal is quite wonderful ; the Juanga will discover a deer's track, even some hours after the animal may have passed over fallen leaves and ground the least calculated for track ing an animal. They also hunt with dogs, of which they possess a very useful breed, but they have no firearms. Their expertness with the how is quite astonishing, and at 80 yards they will hit a very small mark, and it is considered no feat to shoot a hare at full speed, or a bird upon the wing,—the latter being generally shot with blunt arrows. Their bows are generally of bam boo, and so powerful are they as to send an arrow through and through a wild hog or deer ; but they do not care to meddle with the large animals, and have an especial dread of the bear and tiger. This tribe do not hold any land, and
appear to have a strong aversion to agriculture, or any other laborious employment. They possess but few domestic animals, and these they rarely kill except for sacrificial purposes; thus they have to depend on the produce of the chase to supply them with flesh, but game of all kind is so plentiful in those jungles that the Juanga need never be in want of animal food. The flesh of snakes is, by them, considered a peculiar delicacy, but their ordinary diet consists of edible grass seeds, and roots, which must be an unpalatable and little nourishing kind of aliment ; however, as before stated, the men show no symptoms of insufficiency of diet, for they appear plump and sufficiently fed, but the women have a meagre and half starved look, though, perhaps, this arises as much from want of clothing as the absence of sufficient nourishment ; for a certain degree of warmth is quite as essential as food to maintain either man or beast in healthy condition. The Chenchu of the Guntur and Masulipatam jungles much resemble the Juanga in their habits, and the jungles of Malabar contain the Holier race, whose women, up till A.D. 1830, were in the practice of attending the market of Mangalore in similar vegetable costume.—Colburn's Journal, 1861.