BASSUS, CASSIANUS

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BASSUS, CASSIANUS , called SCHOLASTIc1IS (lawyer), one of the geeponici or writers on agricultural subjects. He lived at the end of the 6th or the beginning of the 7th century A.D. He compiled from earlier writers a collection of agricultural literature (Geeponica) which was afterwards revised by an unknown editor and published about the year 950, in the reign of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, to whom the

work

WORK

itself has been ascribed. It contains a full

list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

of the authorities

drawn

DRAWN

upon, and the subjects treated include agriculture, birds, bees, horses, cattle, heep, dogs, fishes and the like.
for raising

rice

and wet crops. In the jungles the Marias, who are among the aboriginal tribes of Gond origin, raise kosra (Panicum italicum) and other inferior grains. Aboriginal races generally follow the migratory system of tillage, clearing the jungle on selected patches, and after taking crops for two or three years abandoning them for new ground. They do not use the plough; nor do they possess buffaloes, bullocks or cows; their only agricultural implement is a long-handled iron hoe. They are a timid, quiet, docile race, and although addicted to drinking not quarrelsome. They inhabit the densest jungles and are very shy, avoiding contact with strangers, and flying to the hills on the least alarm; but they

bear

a good character for honesty and truthfulness. They are very scantily dressed,

wear

WEAR

a variety of trinkets, with a knife, hatchet, spear, bow and arrows, the only weapons they use. Their

hair

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

is generally shaved; excepting a topknot; and when not shaved it gets into a matted, tangled mass; gathered into a knot behind or on the crown. The Marias and the Jhurias are supposed to be a subdivision of the true Gond family. All the aboriginal tribes of Bastar

worship

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

the deities of the Hindu pantheon along with their own national goddess Danteswari.
Bastar is divided into two portionsthat held by the Raja or

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

himself, and that possessed by feudatory chiefs under him. The climate is unhealthyfever, smallpox, dysentery and rheumatism being the prevailing diseases. Jagdalpur, Bijapur, Madder and Bhupalpatnam ate the only places of any note in the dependency, the first (on the Indravati river) being the residence of the raja and the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

people of the state. The principal products are

rice

, oil-seeds, lac, tussur silk, horns, hides, wax and a little iron. Teak timber is floated down the rivers to the Madras coast. A good road has brought Jagdalpur into connexion with the railway at Raipur.

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