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man child. A chief of the tribe called Myu,* was out with his dog, 

 which while ranging the forest sees the child in the jungle and com- 

 mences barking ; the Myu chief approaches, takes the child home and 

 adopts him ; eventually this child marries the chief's daughter, and 

 being furnished by the Nats with magic weapons, clears the lowland 

 country of the Bhi-lus, who hitherto had ravaged it. He is acknow- 

 ledged as king, marries the female descendant of the Punna dynasty, 

 and builds a new capital, which is called Dhi-ngya wa~ti. He is called 

 Ma-ra-yu, a derivative from his mother's name. 



From this king the Arakanese historians profess to furnish lists of 

 successive sovereigns without a break up to the time of the Burman 

 conquest in a. d. 1784. Ma-ra-yu gained the throne at the age of 

 18 years, and died after a reign of 62 years, aged 80. 



Of this race, according to Nga~mi, though this does not exactly agree 

 with other accounts, there reigned fifty four sovereigns throughout a 

 period of 1833 years ; at this rate Ma-ra-yu ascended the throne about 

 2658 years b. c. 



At the end of that period an insurrection occurred, and three nobles 

 successively usurped the throne. The queen of the last descendant of 

 Ma-ra-yu escaped with her two daughters, and retired to a hill named 

 Ni- la-pan-toung. 



About this time in the country of Theng-dive\ there lived a king Abhi- 

 ra-dza who had two sons ; they quarrelled regarding the succession to 

 the throne, and the eldest, called Kan- Ra-dza-gyi, was obliged to fly. 

 He is represented as descending with a large army the river Era-wa- 

 ti, and then ascending the Khy-eng-dweng. He crosses the Yuma 

 mountains from the present province of Yau, and reaches the upper 

 course of the Mi-khy-oung in Arakan proper; there he establishes 

 himself on a well known hill, called to this day Khy-oung-pan-toung. 



* I am not sure whether by this name is meant the tribe now called Toung Myu, of 

 which only a few scattered remnants exist, or whether it is merely another name for 

 the present Ka-mu tribe. Some Arakanese say that in remote times the Myu was a 

 very powerful tribe on the Kula-dan, which has been driven out of its possession by the 

 Ka-mi$ who came from the North ; but all the Arakanese literati I have asked have 

 but vague ideas of the lineage of the hill tribes now existing. 



f This is Tagoung N. of the city of Aba, the ancient capital of the empire; vide 

 Journal of the As. Soc for March 1836, where the account of the two sons of Abhi-ra- 

 dza is related by Colonel Burney from the Burmese Chronicles, precisely as given in 

 this history by Nga-mi. 



