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spirits will look on. We say to you, if you wish to look on, come and 
look, and bring sword and spear. We have appointed the month of 
March for the time of holding the feast.” 
Pwo, or Hrv-patone. 
The Pwos call themselves Sho. 
Pwo is the name given them by the Sgau. 
Meet-khyen is a name given them by the Burmese, signifying 
“ River-khyens.” 
Talaing-Karens is a designation they have in some published papers, 
and they are sometimes thus designated by the Burmese, because they 
are principally found among the Talaings. 
Shoung is a name given to a small sub-tribe of Pwos in the north 
of Toungoo. 
Taru, or Pru. : 
Taru is the name given to a tribe nearly related to the Pwos by 
the Red Karens. 
Khu-hta is the name they give themselves. 
Be-lu or monsters is the name by which they are characterized by 
the Burmese. A part of the tribe shave the whole head excepting 
two tufts of hair, one on each temple, which gives them a sufficiently 
frightful appearance to account for the name the Burmese have given 
them. 
Be-lu-ba-doung is the name given them by the Kay tribes. 
Mo-pana, or Prac. 
Mo-pgha is the name of one of the villages, from which the mission- 
aries have named the whole tribe ; but it is a name they do not recog- 
nise themselves. Neither do all call man Plau. Small as is the tribe, 
there are two or three different dialects among the people, and we 
have Pie-zau, and Pie-do for man, as well as Plau. 
Tau-bya, ‘‘ Wild Bees” is a name the Burmese give them in some 
settlements. 
Beha-Pwo is a designation sometimes given them. 
Kar, Gaixuo, or PRaI-KA-YounNG. 
The Kai, or Kay, or Gaikho have no distinctive name for them- 
selves, beyond Pra-ka-young, or Ka-young, their word for man. 
Ka appears occasionally as designating the people, but it signifies 
land in their dialect, and properly denotes the country. 
