The dead are kept two days, during which the family mourn, and the kindred and friends assemble and feast, dance and sing. The body is then burned by a river's side, and each person having bathed returns to his usual occupation. A funeral costs ten rupees, as several pigs must be sacrificed to the manes. This tribe has no letters; but a sort of priesthood called Déóshi, who marry and work like other people. Their office is not hereditary, and everybody employs what Déóshi he pleases, but some one always assists at every sacrifice and gets a share. The Kocch sacrifice to the sun, moon, and stars, to the gods of rivers, hills and woods, and every year, at harvest-home, they offer fruits and a fowl to deceased parents, though they believe not in a future state! Their chief gods are Rishi and his wife Jágó. After the rains the whole tribe make a grand sacrifice to these gods, and occasionally also, in cases of distress. There are no images. The gods get the blood of sacrifices; their votaries, the meat. Disputes are settled among themselves by juries of Elders, the women being excluded here, however despotic at home. If a man incurs a fine, he cannot pay with purse, he must with person, becoming a bondman, on food and raiment only, unless his wife can and will redeem him." I must now request particular attention on the part of the reader to the terms which Mr. Hodgson applies to the physical conformation of these northern, or sub-Himalayan tribes; and still closer attention must be given to his nomenclature. He calls the stock in question _Tamulian_. This connects it with the _South_ Indian. He contrasts it with the _Hindú_. By this he means the Brahminical elements of the Indian populations. Let us then see what points he considers to be _Tamulian_. 1. There is "less height, less symmetry, more dumpiness and flesh." 2. There is "a somewhat lozenge contour (of face) caused by the large cheek-bones." 3. There is "less perpendicularity of features in the front--a larger proportion of face to head--a broader flatter face--a shorter wider nose, often clubbed at the end, and furnished with round nostrils." 4. There is a smaller eye, "less fully opened, and less evenly crossing the face by their line of aperture." In other words, there is the _oblique_ eye, so much considered in the Chinese physiognomy. 5. Lastly, there are larger ears, thicker lips, and less beard. I submit that all these points are Mongolian; and this is what Mr. Hodgson evidently thinks also. The whole class has passed beyond the hunter state, if ever such existed. It has passed beyond the pastoral or nomadic state also; if such existed. It is at present--and, perhaps, has always been--an agricultural state of society. On the other hand--the industrial state, the development represented by towns and commerce, has not been attained.