Chempakaraman.--Recorded, in the Travancore Census Report, 1901, as an honorific title of Nayars. Chenchu.--The Chenchus or Chentsus are a Telugu-speaking jungle tribe inhabiting the hills of the Kurnool and Nellore districts. In a letter addressed to the Bengal Asiatic Society, [18] transmitting vocabularies of various tribes inhabiting Vizagapatam, by Mr. Newill, it is stated that "the Chenchu tribe, whose language is almost entirely corrupt Hindi and Urdu with a few exceptions from Bengali, affords one more example to the many forthcoming of an uncultured aboriginal race having abandoned their own tongue." The compiler of the Kurnool Manual (1885) remarks that Mr. Newill's vocabulary "seems to belong to the dialect spoken by Lambadis, who sometimes wander about the hills, and it is not unlikely that he was misled as to the character of the persons from whom his list was taken." As examples of the words given by Mr. Newill, the following may be quoted:-- Bone, had. One, yek. Cat, billeyi. Ten, das. Ear, kan. Far, dur. Elephant, hate. Drink, pi. Tiger, bag. Sweet, mitha. It is probable that Mr. Newill confused the Chenchus with the Bonthuk Savaras (q.v.) who speak corrupt Oriya, and are called Chenchu vandlu, and, like the Chenchus, believe that the god Narasimha of Ahobilam married a girl belonging to their tribe. As a further example of the confusion concerning the Chenchus, I may quote the remarks of Buchanan [19] about the Irulas, who are a Tamil-speaking jungle tribe: "In this hilly tract there is a race of men called by the other natives Cad Eriligaru, but who call themselves Cat Chensu. The language of the Chensu is a dialect of the Tamil, with occasionally a few Karnata or Telinga words intermixed, but their accent is so different from that of Madras that my servants did not at first understand what they said. Their original country, they say, is the Animalaya forest below the ghats, which is confirmed by their dialect." In the Census Report, 1901, Chenchu is said to be the name by which Irulas of North Arcot and the Mysore plateau are called sometimes, and, in the Census Report, 1891, Chenchu is given as a sub-division of the Yanadis. There can be little doubt that the Chenchus and Yanadis are descended from the same original stock. Mackenzie, in the local records collected by him, speaks of the Chenchus as being called Yanadi Chenchus. The Chenchus themselves at the present day say that they and the Yanadis are one and the same, and that the tribes intermarry.