one of the rude tribes of Hindustan, inhabiting chiefly the rocky ranges of the Vynndia and Sautpoora mountains, and the banks of the Nerhuda and Taptee. In common with the hill tribes designated Coolies and Ghoonds, the Bheels are supposed to have been the aborigines of India, and to have been driven to their present fastnesses at the period of the Hindu invasion. They are of dark complexion and diminutive stature, but active, and capable of enduring great fatigue. Efforts have been made by the British government to reclaim the Bheels from lawless practices; and these have been rendered successful, partly by raising a local military corps into which the wild and unruly spirits were drafted, and partly by settling throughout the districts of Candesh and Ahmednuggur small agricultural communities composed of those more peaceably disposed. High commendation has been bestowed by competent military authority upon the discipline and skill displayed by the Bheel corps; while with regard to the agricultural settlements, the happy results cannot be better described than in the words of the British superintendent Mr. Candesh, who says: "These districts, formerly the scene of every outrage, where neither life nor property were secure, now enjoy tranquillity; the roads, formerly hazardous for an armed party, are traversed at all hours by single passengers; the formidable list of crimes has dwindled down to the reports of a few petty thefts, and the Bheels from outcasts have become members of a society daily rising in respectability and appearance, and becoming useful and obedient servants of the state."