382 Hill Tribes in the Chittagong District. [No. 161. 



Supreme Being who is to give a spiritual reward being above their 

 conception, how can they imagine a greater happiness than the view 

 of the most beautiful scenery ? 



Following the edge of the hill to the S. E., I passed through a 

 village situated on the top of another hill, about 200 feet lower than 

 Sitacra, whose inhabitants were Arracanese. I saw some Oolock and 

 other monkeys on a high jungly jack tree, whose fruits are smaller 

 than the common jack ; they are good to eat, but have an acid taste : 

 this tree grows very large ; the wood is of a beautiful yellow color ; the 

 Burmese use it in building their boats. 



When I reached the banks of the river it was four o'clock, the 

 thermometer being at that time 88° ; there I met several persons, who 

 were waiting for me to get medicine : they begged of me to go to their 

 village; but as it was too much out of my way, I declined their invi- 

 tation. Some of them wished to accompany me ; but as I knew that 

 they were busy in sowing their crops, I would not accept their offer. 

 These Arracanese are very hospitable, kind, and disinterested ; I have 

 been several times in their villages. They have accompanied me 

 in my excursions, and I could never prevail on them to accept any re- 

 ward for their trouble, nor for the different articles furnished during 

 my stay amongst them. On the following morning I started from my 

 boat, and crossed a plain for one hour in a southerly direction following 

 a small path, and crossing several times a small stream and then as- 

 cended a hill elevated from three to four hundred feet above the level 

 of the river, following the edge of that hill in an easterly direction. I 

 saw at the distance of three or four miles the Bunzoo houses, situated 

 on top of another hill called the Diamond mine ; on another hill thirty 

 or forty persons were busy in sowing paddy and cotton. It is the 

 custom that all the people of the same village join in assisting one 

 another for that purpose. When I reached the village it was past 

 10 o'clock, and the sun at that time began to be very powerful ; the 

 houses nearest to the creek were inhabited by Arracanese. The Bun- 

 zoo dwellings were on the summit of the hill ; and hearing that no Bun- 

 zoo was at home, I went to the house of an Arracanese whose wife was 

 from Tippera ; she dressed like the Burmese women do, spoke a little 

 of that language, and her features so much resembled those of the Bur- 

 mese, that I took her for one of that nation. She offered me some 



