right, it is considered a good sign, the goddess having permitted them to proceed on the expedition; if to the left, they return home that night. Hanuman is also consulted in such expeditions, and the way in which it is done is as follows. They go to a Hanuman temple which is near their village, and, after worshipping him, garland him with a wreath of flowers. The garland hangs on both sides of the neck. If any flowers on the right side drop down first, it is considered as a permission granted by the god to start on plundering expeditions, and, conversely, these expeditions are never undertaken if any flowers happen to drop from the left side first. The Donga Dasaris start on their thieving raids with their whole family, wife and children following. They are the great experts in house-breaking and theft, and children are taught thieving by their mothers when they are five or six years old. The mother takes her boy or girl to the nearest market, and shows the child some cloth or vessel, and asks it to bring it away. When it fails, it is thrashed, and, when stroke upon stroke falls upon its back, the only reply it is taught to give is that it knows nothing. This is considered to be the reply which the child, when it grows up to be a man or woman, has to give to the police authorities when it is caught in some crime and thrashed by them to confess. Whenever the Donga Dasaris are caught by the police, they give false names and false castes. They have a cipher language among themselves. The Donga Dasari woman is very loose, but, if she go astray with a Brahman, Lingayat, Kabbera, Kuruba, Upparava, or Rajput, her tongue is burnt, and she is taken back into the community. Widow remarriage freely prevails. They avoid eating beef and pork, but have no objection to other kinds of flesh." Donga Odde.--The name for Oddes who practice thieving as a profession. Dongayato.--A sub-division of Gaudo. Dongrudiya.--A sub-division of Mali. Dora.--Dora, meaning lord, has been returned as the title of numerous classes, which include Boya, Ekari, Jatapu, Konda Dora, Mutracha, Patra, Telaga, Velama, and Yanati. The hill Kois or Koyis of the Godavari district are known as Koi Dora or Doralu (lords). I am told that, in some parts of the Telugu country, if one hears a native referred to as Dora, he will generally turn out to be a Velama; and that there is the following gradation in the social scale:-- Velama Dora = Velama Esquire. Kamma Varu = Mr. Kamma. Kapu = Plain Kapu, without an honorific suffix. In Southern India, Dorai or Durai (Master) is the equivalent of the northern Sahib, and Dorasani (Mistress) of Memsahib. It is noted by Sir A. J. Arbuthnot [108] that "the appellation by which Sir Thomas Munro was most commonly known in the Ceded districts was that of Colonel Dora. And to this day it is considered a sufficient answer to enquiries regarding the reason for any Revenue Rule, that it was laid down by the Colonel Dora."