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have some suspicion that a communication exists ; for Long- 

 shue has a very great resemblance to Launsci, the name of a 

 town on the east side of this ridge. {Phil. Journ. vii. 233.) 

 This town, indeed, is inhabited by a tribe of the Mranma 

 race called Jo, and between it and the ridge are interposed 

 the Khisen, totally different from the Kungkis ; but it is not 

 improbable that the town derives its name from being the 

 mart for trade with the Longshue, of which origin of names 

 I know several similar instances. It must also be observed, 

 that another town of the Jo nation subject to Ava, is called 

 Zlio, {Phil. Journ. vii. 234s) which is the same name with 

 what some tribes at least of the Kungkis give to themselves, 

 from which circumstance a similar conclusion may be in- 

 ferred ; but the language of the Jo, notwithstanding the re- 

 semblance of the names Jo and Zho, {Phil. Journ. vii. 235.) 

 or Zhu, has no affinity to that of the Kungkis, being a mere 

 provincial dialect of that spoken at Ava. 



On a cluster of hills situated a little south from the tropic, 

 and which, as I was informed, separates the waters falling 

 into the Phani and Karnaphuli from those falling into the 

 Gomuti, there is said to reside a tribe called Langmang, 

 more rude than even the Kungkis, with whom they are 

 at constant war. I have never seen any of them ; but they 

 are said by the Bengalese to sleep on trees like baboons. 

 They do not cultivate rice, but live chiefly on the kind of 

 grain called Kangun, {Panicum Italicum.) The latter cir- 

 cumstance is probable ; but it can only be when they are 

 watching their fields that these poor people can be supposed 

 to sleep on trees, a rude stage placed among the branches, 

 with a few leaves by way of thatch, being a kind of resting 

 place, which I have seen used by watchmen in several places 

 of India, where elephants abound, as they do on the hills near 

 Kundal. It is probable that the Langmang are merely one 

 of the tribes of Kungkis, of which Radun Maniks Dewan 

 spoke ; and there are many Kungkis both on the north and 

 south of these hills. 



These are the tribes interposed between Ava and Bengal, 

 from about the latitude 24° 25' to 22° 55' N. I shall now 

 give an account of the principal river by which this space is 



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