A black stone, called _Ruxy_, is much of the same sort of fetish with these mountaineers as the Sij with the Bodo. The name, too, Ruxy _Nad_, suggests the Nat worship of the Silong, Kariens, and others. The northern half of the Tamulian families are, like the Welsh, the Cornish, and the Bretons of France, members of the same ethnological group, but not in geographical contact with each other. Or, rather, they are, like the Celtic population of Wales and the Scottish Highlands, cut off from one another by a vast tract of intervening Anglo-Saxons. Yet the time was when all was Celtic, from Cape Wrath to the Land's End; and when the original population extended, in its full integrity, over York and Nottingham, as well as over Merioneth and Argyleshire. And so it is with the populations in question. They stand apart from each other, like islands in an ocean; the intervening spaces being filled up by Hindús. At the same time the isolation has been much overvalued, and, I imagine that when greater attention shall have been bestowed upon this important subject, connecting links which have hitherto been unnoticed will be detected. The next locality where we find a population akin to the Rajmahali mountaineers, is the mountain system of Orissa. These are called by the Hindús _Kóls_ (_Coolies_), _Khonds_ and _Súrs_. Such, however, are no native designations--no more than the classical term _Barbarian_, or the English word _Tartar_. The people themselves have no collective name; but, being divided into tribes, have a separate one for each. I say that this branch of Tamulians is isolated, because I am not able to show its continuity; the range of hill-country which gives rise to the rivers between the Ganges and Mahanuddy being but imperfectly known. In Orissa, the most northern of the hill-tribes are the Kól of Cuttack. South of these come the Khonds best studied in the neighbourhood of Goomsoor. The following is a list of their gods, and as _n_ seems to stand for _d_, _Pennu_ is but another name for _Bedo_, and _Gossa Pennu_ for _Bedo Gosaik_:-- 1. Bera _Pennu_, or the earth god. 2. Bella _Pennu_, the sun god, and Danzu _Pennu_, the moon god. 3. Sandhi _Pennu_, the god of limits. 4. Loha _Pennu_, the iron god, or god of arms. 5. Jugah _Pennu_, the god of small-pox. 6. Madzu _Pennu_, or the village deity, the universal _genius loci_. 7. Soro _Pennu_, the hill god. 8. Jori _Pennu_, the god of streams. 9. Gossa _Pennu_, the forest god. 10. Munda _Pennu_, the tank god. 11. Sugu _Pennu_, or Sidruja _Pennu_, the god of fountains. 12. Pidzu _Pennu_, the god of rain. 13. Pilamu _Pennu_, the god of hunting. 14. The god of births.[36] The most southern of the Orissa hill-tribes are the _Súr_; connected by language with the preceding tribes; as they were with each other and the Rajmahali mountaineers.