2^0 ON THE RELIGION AND 



93 La-rouk, 



95 Bui-ba, 



96 Ram-man, 



97 Kiayn, A numerous tribe in the mountains 



feparating Ava from Arakan. 



98 Pyo, 



99 Ld-waik, The capital city of Cambodia. 



100 Layn-nat, 



101 Oo-byee, 



But let us now return to the defcription of £ahu- 

 diba, as extracted by the mifTionary from the Burma 

 "writings. 



" XXIX. In the moft northern parts of Zabiidiba, 

 *' the Burma writers place an ipimenfe mountain, of 

 " which the perpendicular height is 500 juzana, and 

 " the extent it occupies is in circumference 9000 

 ^^ juzana. It is named Hemavunta^ on account of the 

 ^'perpetual fnow with which it is covered*; and 

 " confifts of 14,000 fmall mountains, one piled on 

 *' another. In the declivities of this mountain are 

 " feven lakes, which receive the water produced by 

 " the melted fnow. Of thefe lakes the depth is fifty 

 *^ juzana, and the circumference 150. From thefe 

 ** lakes fpring five great rivers, one of which is named 

 " Gunga ; and from thefe rivers arife five hundred 

 " fmaller ftreams. On Hemavunta grow various 

 " fpecies of fandal wood : on this mountain live many 

 " Nat of the kind named Zadumaharit : and here are 

 " found the kings of elephants, and of horfes, with 



many 



* Th I s Hemavunta is evidently the mount Imaus or Emodus of the 

 antients, or the HimaUh or Himalaya mountains of the prefent Hindus ; 

 all the three names deriving their origm from the phenomenon of fnow, fo 

 wonderful to the inhabitants of tropical regions. Pun. Hifl. Nat. L- 6, 

 c. 17. — Ren Nell's Memoir, p. 126, 



