JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Report on the Island of Chedooba. — By Edward P. Halsted, Esq. 

 Commander of her Majesty* s Sloop ' ChildersS 



( Continued from page 377.^ 



Division V. 

 Manners and Customs, Education, Language, and Religion. 



The population of Chedooba is, with few, and trifling exceptions, entirely 

 Mug, and from their isolated position, its inhabitants afford perhaps a 

 truer exhibition of the character of these people than their brethren of 

 the main land, or of Ramree, whose intercourse with their fellow subjects 

 of different parts of the Peninsula, has by no means been attended with 

 benefit to their original and national character. The Mugs of Chedooba, 

 are a simple, moral, and inoffensive race, of frank open manner, cheer- 

 ful, and forgiving disposition ; exhibiting much independence of feeling, 

 the consequence of a thorough contentment with their lot ; respectful to 

 their superiors, though perfect strangers to the crouching servility of the 

 Hindoo ; throughout their character, exhibiting those traits, which are 

 most readily appreciated, and admired by ourselves, some which might 

 even be copied with advantage, and which, if duly fostered and encouraged, 

 offer with his freedom from all the obstacles of caste aground work whereon 

 to elevate the Mug high, if not the highest, in all the benefits of European 

 civilization of all the natives of the East, subjected to our rule, from 

 whom in almost every point of character, as in appearance he differs 

 most widely ; in the last particular less to his advantage, than in the 



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