1875.] 



39 



On the Khyeng People of tlie Sandoivay District, Arakan. — By Major 

 G. E. Fryer, Deputy Commissioner, Sandoivay. 

 ("With two plates.) 

 Part I. 

 Physical and Social Characteristics. 

 Introductory. 

 The great western mountain range of Burma is peopled by tribes under 

 a great variety of names, of whom the Khyeng race is perhaps the most 

 extensively diffused. The geographical limits of the people are comprised 

 within the 18th and 21st degrees of North latitude. The character of the 

 region inhabited by the Northern Khyengs is described as rugged and inac- 

 cessible, and their life a hard one ; but the Khyengs here dwell on the 

 fertile banks of streams, and can procure the necessaries of life without 

 difficulty ; moreover, though still retaining their individuality, they are gra- 

 dually adopting the more civilized manners and the mode of agriculture of 

 the Arakanese. 



The subjoined statement gives the Khyeng population in the districts 

 of Arakan (Hill Tracts excepted) as it stood at the census of 1872, together 

 with the number of villages and houses : — 







Maxes. 





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Akyat>, .... 



1,100 



943 



2,043 



970 



904 



1,874 



3,917 



40 



950 



24 



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Kamree, .... 



2,791 



2,481 



5,272 



3,014 



2,038 



5,052 



10,324 



92 



2,260 



12 



4-1 



Sandoway, . . 



1,396 



1,106 



2,502 



1,317 



896 



2,213 



4,715 



96 



996 



10 



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Total, . . 



5,287 



4,530 



9,817 



5,301 



3,838 



9,139 



18,956 



228 



4,206 



14 



4-5 



Physical Characteristics. 



Table A. exhibits the age, weight, height, and measurement in length 



and circumference of the limbs of twenty-five male and twenty-five female 



Khyengs of average size. The weights are expressed in pounds avoirdupois ; 



the measurements in English inches and tenths. Four pounds, [the weight 



