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languages (teste Meinam, Likhu, &c ), we shall hardly be disposed 

 to hesitate in admitting that the Northmen as they moved South- 

 wards into the tropical swamps of India and Indo- China, clung to, 

 and perpetuated, even amid various changes of language, that name 

 of the river of their northern home (viz. the river, kat' hexokin) 

 with which was associated in their minds the memory of their 

 father-land. 



" By the waters of Babylon they sat down and wept." 

 P. S. — Before I went to England in 1853, I had been so for- 

 tunate as to gain access to some Gyarungs and Takpas or inha- 

 bitants of Sifan and of the south-eastern confines of Tibet. In my 

 paper on the Hdrsok I gave the substance of their information 

 about Sifan. I will here add a few scattered particulars about the 

 country lying above Asam, and the rather, because from the date 

 of my return to India up to this hour, I have never again been able 

 to get access to these people. The Tibetans and Sifauese are wholly 

 unacquainted with the terms Daphla, Abor, Bor, Aka, Miri, Mishmi, 

 Khamti, by which we denominate the tribes lying east of Bhutan. 

 They recognise Chang vel Sang (Changlo of Eobinson) as the name 

 of a Bhutanese tribe or rather profession. They say that above Pal 

 yeul or Nepal (easternmost part — alone known to my informants) 

 is Tingri : above Deunjong or Sikim is Trinsam (the Dingcham of 

 Hooker and Damsen of myself) : above Lho or Bhutan is Nyero : 

 above Towang is Chona or Jhang chona : above Lhokhapta ia 

 Khwombo: above Charung is Chozogon. These are said to be the 

 respective Cis and Trans-himalayan districts occurring from the 

 position of Kuti in Nepal eastwards to beyond that of Saddia in 

 Asam. It is added that the river Eni vel Yeru (Brahmaputra) 

 passes, from Kwdmbo into Lhokhapta, beneath the great snowy 

 mountain called Kwombochari, and that a great mela or mart is 

 held there every twelve years. Lhokhapta, or Lho of the cut lips, 

 is so called to distinguish it from Lho proper, because the people 

 have the habit of making a permanent cleft in their lip. 



Tsang province is said to be bounded on the south by the Ghtin- 

 gra ridge ; on the west by Mount Ghundala ; on the north and east 

 by the Kambala range ; the province of U to be bounded east by 

 Siingwa gyamda, west by the river Tamchokhamba, south by the 



