﻿ROOKIES OR LUNCTAS. 197 



plain of Chittagong. The Kookies are a great terror 

 to i-he Bengalees settled on the borders of Xhe jungles 

 in the Runganeeah and Auningabad districts ; and a 

 particular annoyance to the wood cutters, whose busi- 

 ness leads tliem far into the forests, and whom they have 

 frequently surprised and cut off. Whenever an unfor- 

 tunate event of this nature has occurred, it has always 

 been remarked, that the Kookies carry nothing away 

 from the slain but their heads, and such salt as tliey 

 may have with tliem. They stand so greatly in awe 

 of fire arms, that the report of a single musket Avill 

 put a Mhole party to flight ; on this account x\\q Ra- 

 jah of the Choomeeas, who is so immediately in their 

 neii^hbourhood, keeps in his service a number of 

 Pehluxvans, or men with fire-arms; but, notwithstand- 

 ing, his people have been obliged to abandon several 

 places, by the depredations connnitted by the Roo- 

 kies. Though the Rajah is upon terms of friendship 

 M'ith some of the tribes, yet, in the course of their 

 migrations, these are succeeded by others that he 

 knows nothing of, and of whose approach even he is 

 ignorant, until his people are cut off; he is, there- 

 fore, under the necessity of being constantly pre- 

 pared to repel these attacks, which, from being al- 

 ways made in the night, it is impossible to guard 

 against. 



I'hk folloM'ing is a specimen of the Kookie lan- 



guage 



Meepa, :\Ian. 



Noonaoo, Woman 



Naoo, A Child. 



Meepa Naoot'he, A mate Child. 



Noonaoot'he, A female Child. 



P'ha, Father. 



Noo, Mother 



Chopooee, Brother. 



Charnoo, • • • • Sister. 



P'hoOy Grandfather. 



• O 3 F'hee, 



