HILLS NEAR RAJAMAHALL. 4£ 



expiration of five days a fowl is immolated, and the 

 blood sprinkled on the muck/mm-branch, which is 

 taken up, and with the horns and some of the bones of 

 the buffalo, is fastened on the roof of the Maungy $ 

 house, where they are left to decay. In some places 

 stages are erected for these sacred fragments, at the 

 north-east angle of the Maungfs house. The chief 

 Maungy of a tupfah (which is a number of hills that 

 have villages on them) whose authority is acknow- 

 ledged by the Maungies of the several villages in 

 his limits, appoints a time annually to pray, that 

 rhey may have rain enough for their crops. This 

 festival may be held in any month in the year, except 

 Poos, in which they neither marry, build a house, 

 nor undertake any thing of consequence, consider-* 

 ing it an unlucky month. The chief of the tuppah 

 having determined on a day, sends an arra to ihe 

 Maungy of each village, desiring him to attend with 

 twenty or thirty of his men by the day fixed on: 

 when assembled, they all repair to the place esta- 

 blished without the village, for the ceremony of the 

 Satane: having planted a small branch of the cha- 

 gulno (/W^-tree) the head of a goat is severed 

 with a sword, that the blood may fall on the leaves 

 of the chavulno : the Satane is tlien rescned to, to 

 ascertain what chief will be most acceptable to the 

 God of Rain, to pray to on this occasion; this be- 

 ,ing settled, a day is named for prayer, upon which 

 all the ALiungies, with their vassals, assemble at their 

 chiefs, before whose door the Demauno and the 

 Maungy i on whom the Satfine election had fallen, 



pray ; 



