Concerning the Konda Kapus or Konda Reddis of the Godavari district, Mr. F. R. Hemingway writes as follows. [153] "The hill Reddis, or Konda Reddis, are a caste of jungle men, having some characteristics in common with the Koyas. They usually talk a rough Telugu, clipping their words so that it is often difficult to understand them; but it is said that some of them speak Koya. They are of slighter build than the Koyas, and their villages are even smaller. They will not eat in the house of a Koya. They call themselves by various high-sounding titles, such as Pandava Reddis, Raja Reddis, and Reddis of the solar race (Suryavamsa), and do not like the plain name of Konda Reddi. They recognize no endogamous sub-divisions, but have exogamous septs. In character they resemble the Koyas, but are less simple and stupid, and in former years were much given to crime. They live by shifting cultivation. They do not touch beef, but will eat pork. They profess to be both Saivites and Vaishnavites, and occasionally employ Brahman priests at their funerals; and yet they worship the Pandavas, the spirits of the hills (or, as they call them, the sons of Racha), their ancestors including women who have died before their husbands, and the deity Muthyalamma and her brother Poturazu, Saralamma, and Unamalamma. The last three are found in nearly every village. Other deities are Doddiganga, who is the protector of cattle, and is worshipped when the herds are driven into the forests to graze, and Desaganga (or Paraganga), who takes the place of the Maridamma of the plains, and the Muthyalamma of the Koyas as goddess of cholera and small-pox. The shrine of Saralamma of Pedakonda, eight miles east of Rekapalle, is a place of pilgrimage, and so is Bison Hill (Papikonda), where an important Reddi festival is held every seven or eight years in honour of the Pandava brothers, and a huge fat pig, fattened for the occasion, is killed and eaten. The Reddis, like the Koyas, also observe the harvest festivals. They are very superstitious, believing firmly in sorcery, and calling in wizards in time of illness. Their villages are formed into groups like those of the Koyas, and the hereditary headmen over these are called by different names, such as Dora, Muttadar, Varnapedda, and Kulapatradu. Headmen of villages are known as Pettadars. They recognise, though they do not frequently practice, marriage by capture. If a parent wishes to show his dislike for a match, he absents himself when the suitor's party calls, and sends a bundle of cold rice after them when they have departed. Children are buried. Vaishnavite Reddis burn their adult dead, while the Saivites bury them. Satanis officiate as priests to the former, and Jangams to the latter. The pyre is kindled by the eldest male of the family, and a feast is held on the fifth day after the funeral. The dead are believed to be born again into their former families."