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monster, and seeing for the first time the sky stretching over the earth like a cover, 

 and the earth within, they exclaimed " Mo-boon" (sky cover) and " Mye-dai" 

 (earth within), from which those places received their names. They came on to 

 the Book an stream, and there met the hermit's daughter, who had come to draw 

 water. This is believed to have occurred about 484 years B. C. The hermit or 

 Ra-the proved to be the maternal uncle of the Princes, who had long before left 

 Tagoung, and after having a daughter born to him became a hermit in the hills 

 adjoining Prome. By his advice the people of the country who were of the Pyu. 

 tribe, chose Prince Maha-tham-b*-wa,.as their ruler, he married the hermit's 

 daughter Bhe-da-ree, and they founded the city of Ra-the near to Prome, where 

 the descendants of Maha-tham-ba-wa, reigned for twenty-seven generations. 



7. Yoo-dzana. — A measure of distance reckoned to be about 13 English miles. 



8. Pyeen-tseng. — A grade of the Buddhist priesthood. 



9. Prince Theid-dat, i. e. Gautama the son of the king of Kapili-vasta, who 

 abandoned his kingdom to become a Buildhist monk. 



10. The religion of Gautama it is believed is destined to last five thousand years, 

 (2398 of which have now passed) after which the Buddha A-ri-ma-te-ya will be 

 developed. 



11. Htee. — The iron net- work shaped like an umbrella which crowns a Burmese 

 Pagoda. 



12. The last sentence in the scroll is in the Pali language, and has been rendered 

 to me in Burmese. 



A slight notice of the Grammar of the Thadou or new Kookie Ian* 

 guage. — By Lieut, li. Stewart, 22nd Regt. B. JV". /. 



The people to whom the term Kookie is given by the inhabitants 

 of the Eastern Frontier of Bengal, occupy, together with other 

 tribes, the hilly tracts lying to the North, South and East of Cacbar, 

 and Manipoor : they are divided into numerous clans each under a 

 petty hereditary chief or Kajah. 



The appellation of Kookie is unknown among themselves, and 

 they have no title embracing their whole race, but they call one 

 another by the names of their different clans. 



They all speak the same language, with very slight modification 

 in the dialects, and it is called among them Thadou Fao, from the 

 name of one of their principal clans. 



