630 Notes on the Kasia Hills, and People. [No. 152. 



and Pangnorrop. I asked if there were giants then in old times ? The 

 good man answered, that he could not speak as to their height, but 

 they were " Bara mota wala," exceeding stout. 



The Kasias have also their maid of Arc, or black Agnes. She was 

 the wife of Ula. Ula was a great warrior at the court of the Raja 

 of Linkardyem, and the Raja married his sister. 



Now in those days there were but twelve households in Cherra, and 

 the Raja of Linkardyem, making war on the Raja of Cherra, drove him 

 with his people to the woods, where they eat leather, and the rind of 

 certain fruits. But the Raja of Linkardyem was a savage, and abused 

 his wife, the sister of the brave Ula. For he placed her on a frame of 

 bamboos, and lighted a fire beneath ; and so, being roasted, she died. 

 So Ula was wroth, and he went to the Raja of Cherra, and said, 

 " Make me a great man, and I will avenge thee on thine enemy." So 

 he of Cherra agreed ; and Ula having cut off the head of the Raja of 

 Linkardyem, brought it to him of Cherra, and so became first counsellor 

 of the Raja. One day as Ula was going forth on his avocations, with 

 others of the village, he said to his wife " Clothe thyself with my arms, 

 and garments. " Meantime the new Rajah of Linkardyem came against 

 Cherra with a mighty host of four thousand men. Now the village 

 of Cherra was well girt with palisades and ditches, and the wife of Ula 

 went forth to the barriers in her husband's arms and clothing, and the 

 other women doing likewise went with her, and when the army of Lin- 

 kardyem beheld the arms and the shield, they shouted in terror ' Ula ! 

 Ula!' and turned their backs in flight; for great was their fear of 

 Ula. And the wives of Cherra, and the men who remained, went forth 

 with the wife of Ula, and chased the Linkardyemians, and smote them 

 sorely. 



From these twelve households come the twelve tribes which now exist 

 in Cherra. My informant was of the house of Ula. I tell these tales 

 as they were told. 



About forty miles west of Cherra, not far from Laour in the Silhet 

 district, a river debouches from the mountains, marked in Capt. Fisher's 

 map as the Jadukotta river. It is a wide shallow stream in the plains, 

 but from where you enter the hills in ascending, it is naturally dammed 

 back so as to present for nearly ten miles a splendid river of the first 

 class, with still, deep, and clear waters, Under one of the bold preci- 



