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Kheong. The Koos being unacquainted with the use of salt, their 
food is extremely insipid and the smallness of their appetite was noticed. 
Their chief food is Indian corn. Like the Khyens and Mroo Khyens, 
they wear but little clothing. Canes slit in two and painted red are 
wrapped round the stomach about 20 times, as a protection from 
poisonous arrow wounds. Muskets are common amongst the Koos of the 
Peng Kheong. Spears, bows and arrows, manufactured by themselves, 
are the other weapons used. 
The Khyens made no complaints about any of their villages being 
attacked by Hall robbers or of any of their number being carried away 
as slaves. Cattles are, however, frequently stolen. 
The only route by which the Hills can be entered, is the bed of the 
Lemroo river, which, in the upper part of its course, is a mountain 
torrent, and admits only of canoes of the smallest size. There is a 
waterfall 4 miles above the village of Goonguen or Lemroo, and after 
the first day’s journey, falls and rapids are met with almost at every 
mile and sometimes oftener. The principal feeders of the Lemroo are 
the Peng Kheong, Saeng Kheong, Wap Kheong, Mau Kheong and 
Saroee Kheong. Canoes are used on these streams for short distances 
from their junctions with the main stream. 
OPI PII ON rn, 
Notes on the Tribes of the Eastern Frontier, No. III.—By H. J. 
Reyno.ps, sq. 
(Communicated by A. Grote, Esq.) 
I have alluded in my 8th para.* to the existence of several Kookie 
villages near the boundary line. I was told that there are 18 such 
villages, and I have myself visited 7 of them, all cf which are 
within the British territory. As these hills have perhaps never before 
been traversed by an Officer of Government, a few remarks respecting 
these hill people may not be out of place. I have above spoken of 
them as Kookies; but the name is not properly applicable to these 
people, who are an entirely different race from the Kookies of the 
Chittagong jungles. The name by which they are commonly known 
is “ Tipperahs.” In physiognomy some of them are like the Muri- 
poorees, but the greater part bear more resemblance to the Khasiah 
* In a foregoing portion of the letter from which the above is extracted. 
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