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Account of the Kookies or Lunctas. 

 By John Macrae, Esq. 



COMMUNICATED BY J. H, HARINGTON, Escj. 



Mr. Harington has the pleasure of laying 

 before the society, an account of the Kookies^ or 

 Cuds,, respecting whom a paper communicated in. 

 Persian by Mr. Rawlins, was translated by Sir 

 William Jones, and printed in the L'd Volume 

 of the Researches. 



The paper now communicated was written by 

 Mr. John McRae, Surgeon in the Honourable 

 Company's Service, at Chittagong ; and from in- 

 formation giv'Cn to him by a native oi' Ri(nga?ieeak, 

 who had long resided among the Ouch' as their cap- 

 tive. It was originally intended as a private com- 

 munication only ; but conceiving that the descrip- 

 tion of manners contained in it, of a people little 

 known, on the frontier of the British Territory, 

 would prove acceptable to the Society, the author 

 was solicited to permit its being read to them ; and 

 they will probably consider it sufficiently interest- 

 ins: for publication in their Researches. 



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January ^At/i, 1799- 



The Kookies are a rate of people that live among 

 the mountains to the north east of the Chittao-o7io' 

 province, at a greater distance than tne Choomeeas 

 from the inhabitants of the plains; to whom there- 

 fore they are little known, and with whom they 

 very rarely have any intercourse, except when they 

 occasionally visit the hauts, or markets, on the 

 borders of the jungles in the Kufigaiiceak and 

 Aurungabad districts, to purchase salt, dried fish, 

 and tobacco. 



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