CEYLON AND ITS ADMINISTRATION.

hunt, or even farm ; and a few of them are genuine Christians.
But there are still left in the interior some of the genuine
“ Rock Veddas ” who live by the bow and the snare; store
their meat, preserved in
honey, in hollow trees;
and avoid intercourse
with other men; and
who, formerly at least,
used to bargain with
their Sinhalese neighbours
 by leaving at the
edge ofthe forestamodel
of the tool or article
which they wanted to
buy and the haunch of
venison with which they
proposed to pay for it,
coming afterwards in
silence and secrecy to
carry off their purchase.
The Veddas are enumerated
 in the Census
of 1901 at 3,971,
The Tamils are of the
Dravidian race. They
have immigrated to
Ceylon from Southern
[ndia in two ways: as
invadersand conquerors
in past centuries, and
in search of labour on
the coffee and tea estates
in recent times. The
former have settled
in the Northern and
part of the Hastern
Provinces, where they
and their language prelominate,
 and they are
to be found in all the
.arger towns elsewhere.
The latter class are to
be found in theplanting
listricts, where their
labour is invaluable.
The majority of the
Tamils profess the