32 Dr Hamilton's Account of the Frontier 



The chief market-place in the valley of Chuckerya, on the 

 Mamuri river, is called Dudusty Khans haat. The river there 

 is a shallow clear stream, the tide reaching only a little farther 

 up to Manikpur, a fine little valley occupied by Bengalese, 

 but surrounded by the territory of Kaungla Pru, which con- 

 sists there of numerous small hills, called, by the Bengalese, 

 collectively, Sitaka Pahar. Among these wind various bran- 

 ches of the Mamuri river, along which canoes and floats of 

 bamboos can be pushed by people walking in the channels, 

 which are in general sandy. The villages, or rather town- 

 ships, scattered there, are occupied by Joomeas, Moroongs and 

 Teura, or Tripuras, each having a chief (ruasah) of their own 

 tribe. At Dudusty Khan's market-place a considerable bar- 

 ter is carried on with these people, who bring cotton, bam- 

 boos, grass for thatch, and a few elephants' teeth, and take in 

 exchange iron work, earthenware, sugar and salt ; but several 

 Muhammedan traders ascend the river and exchange these ar- 

 ticles. The quantity of bamboos and thatch is enormous. 



One of these traders gave me the following account of the 

 route by which he proceeds. Above the rocks which bound 

 Chuckerya on the east, is the valley named Manikpur, on the 

 left of which are three Moroong chiefs, and on the right one. 

 From Manikpur in one day a canoe goes up to Bilchery, where 

 the inhabitants are Bengalese. On the second day the canoe 

 reaches Kamaurabbu, where Joomeas live. On the third day 

 it is taken to Tintoria, a village of the Mroun. On the fourth 

 day the trader reaches the mouth of the Tuinchera, where 

 also Mroun are the inhabitants. On the fifth day the trader 

 reaches Dunzi Chera, where there are Joomea Muggs. On 

 the sixth day he comes to Kalya Chera, a residence of the 

 Mroun. The seventh day brings him to Peinchera, near 

 which are people of the Joomea tribe. The chief man (rua- 

 sah) of this place I saw at Sualuk in attendance on Kaungla 

 Pru. He came from his house in one day, and says, that it 

 stands at the south end of the hill called Sitamura. On the 

 eighth day the trader arrives at Kammi, a residence of the 

 Mroun. On the ninth day he comes to more Joomeas. On 

 the tenth day's journey he arrives at the residence of some 

 Mugs, who came from the banks of the Sabouk, a river in 



