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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2011
[Note. Several years ago, at the close of the military operations of the Madras Government in Goomsur, Captain (then Lieutenant) Macpherson executed by order of government a survey of the country, and in that service lost his health. From the Cape of Good Hope, whither he had gone for its recovery, he transmitted his notes on the religion of the Khonds to a relative in this country, who considered them to possess so much novelty and general interest, that he presented them to the Society, upon his own responsibility, and without the sanction of the writer: and a few additions having been since made, the paper is now laid before the public.]
page 172 note 1 Cuttack, Stirling's, Asiat. Trans., vol. xvi.Google Scholar
page 179 note 1 See the First Georgic, 338–350.Google Scholar
page 179 note 2 Patriarch.
page 183 note 1 This is not the only mode in which human life is offered up by the Khonds to their gods.
page 184 note 1 I have reason to believe that in some districts the Sun is the chief God.
page 192 note 1 There is reason to believe that the Romans, during the first 170 years after the foundation of their city, had no images of their gods. See Arnold's History of Rome, vol. i., p. 58.Google Scholar
page 192 note 2 There is a rock in Nepaul which is considered to be a god, and a British officer threw the people into the greatest excitement by inadvertently breaking off the nose of the deity as a geological specimen.