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its waters by the confluence of innumerable water-courses trickling 

 from masses of high hills — about 21° 50' N. Lat. inhabited by the 

 " Koon" tribe : (The people lower down south and nearer the Koladyn 

 being called " Koomwees.") To the North and N. E. of the Koons 

 the hills rise higher and higher, and amid this region, circumscribed 

 by a space which, from all the information I can procure, I place be- 

 tween Lats. 22° and 23° N. and Longs. 93° and 94° E. lies the country 

 of the Shendoos. 



This mountainous tract appears in Pemberton's map to be bounded 

 to the East by the Nankathey khyoung, or Munipore river : but in all 

 other directions it mingles indefinitely with other ranges, and an un- 

 broken extent of forest. 



The Shendoos, or, as they style themselves, the " Heuma," are sub- 

 divided into several classes : my informant Lebbey, was the chief or 

 " Abeu" of the one nearest to the Koons, by name " Bookee," consist- 

 ing of 350 houses, all in one village. 



The others of his people or nation, he gave me the following list of, 

 describing each class as lying further and further to the N. E. but of 

 the distances between each, I could gather no information — beyond 

 that, the last one on his list, was 'as far from his village on the one 

 side, as Akyab on the other, and the last he stated himself to have 

 been thirteen days in reaching. Next to Bookee is — 2. Thubbau, pre- 

 sided over by Tynkho and Wantlye Abeus ; consisting of 400 houses, 

 in two villages. 



Tawho Abeu, 100 houses. 



Khooloung Abeu, 100 houses. 



Shikho Abeu, 50 houses. 



Khenoung Abeu, 250 houses. 



Kheachoo, 240 houses. 



Gebbo Abeu, 500 houses. 



Whuhnyn Abeu, 600 houses. 



J'hachow Abeu, 



This last town is described as containing 2,000 houses ! — as being 

 in entirely open country and clear of all the hills — and as having much 

 cultivation about it. The inhabitants, said Lebbey, use carts and ride 

 on horses, and the Shendoos pay tribute to their chief. My informant 

 had never been himself further than Mowtoo, and spoke of Hekka 



3 

 4 



Lalyang, 

 Tumboo, 



5 



6 

 7 



Roongfe, 



Yanglyng, 



Hoothe, 



8 



Mowtoo, 



9 

 



Tantlang, 

 Hekka, 



