1844.] Notes on the Kasia Hills, and People. 629 



Wherefore (said the narrator) all the multitude remained above, where 

 they form a great bazar, and are the stars we see. The group of the 

 Pleiads is the only one they name, and it is called " the Henman." Is 

 it not called " the chickens" in Italy ? They have names for twelve 

 months, as follows, but their application seems somewhat vague. 



Naiwien, 



Ujiliu, 



Ukla-lankot, 



U-naitung, 



Urampang, 



U-nailar, 



Ulaber, 



U-nailur, 



Uyaiyong, 



U-risau, 



Ujamang, 



Naupra, 



Smaller intervals are reckoned by village market days, which are held 

 every fourth day, a greater and a less alternately. They have no weeks. 



Some of the local traditions are interesting. The following is a 

 parallel to the banquet of Atreus. One of the finest water falls near 

 Cherra, in the deep valley of Maumlu, is called Kano Likai, or Likai' s 

 leap. The origin of the name was thus related to me. Once on a time 

 a man of foreign race came to the hills, married a woman named Likai, 

 and settled with his wife in a village north of Maumlu. They had two 

 children, a boy and a girl. One day the woman betook herself to the 

 forest as usual to cut fire-wood, in her absence the father killed his two 

 little children, and cooked them ; on his wife's return, he invited her to 

 feast on what he had prepared, and she did so ; he then disclosed what 

 she had eaten. Then said Likai, " It is no longer good to remain in 

 this world," and hurrying to the adjoining precipice leapt over. 



Another rock in the same neighbourhood, has its name from a crime 

 which occurred during a severe famine. Two brothers sat upon its 

 verge conversing. One had just procured a supply of rice, the other 

 was destitute. The latter thought within himself, " here is abundant 

 food, my wife and children are perishing for want," and pushing his 

 brother from his seat, seized his plunder, and hurried home. 



On the road from Cherra to Jaintia is a singular ravine, some 600 

 yards in length, and 80 feet in depth, with sides remarkably even, and 

 regularly parallel. The far end is closed by a round knoll. This, it is 

 said, was the archery ground of three heroes of old, Ramha, Nonorrop, 



