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spirits will look on. We say to you, if you wish to look on, come and 

 look, and bring sword and spear. We have appointed the month of 

 March for the time of holding the feast." 



Pwo, or Heu-phlong. 



The Pwos call themselves Sho. 



Pwo is the name given them by the Sgau. 



Meet-khyen is a name given them by the Burmese, signifying' 

 " River-khyens." 



Talaing- Karens is a designation they have in some published papers, 

 and they are sometimes thus designated by the Burmese, because they 

 are principally found among the Takings. 



Shoung is a name given to a small sub-tribe of Pwos in the north 

 of Toungoo. 



Taru, or Plu. 



Taru is the name given to a tribe nearly related to the Pwos by 

 the Bed Karens. 



Khu-hta is the name they give themselves. 



Be-lu or monasters is the name by which they are characterized by 

 the Burmese. A part of the tribe shave the whole head excepting 

 two tufts of hair, one on each temple, which gives them a sufficiently 

 frightful appearance to account for the name the Burmese have given 

 them. 



Be-lu-ba-doung is the name given them by the Kay tribes. 

 Mo-pgha, or Plau. 



Mo-pgha is the name of one of the villages, from which the mission- 

 aries have named the whole tribe ; but it is a name they do not recog- 

 nise themselves. Neither do all call man Plau. Small as is the tribe, 

 there are two or three different dialects among the people, and we 

 have Pie-zau, and Pie-do for man, as well as Plau. 



Tau-bya, " Wild Bees" is a name the Burmese give them in some 

 settlements. 



Bgha-Pwo is a designation sometimes given them. 

 Kai, G-aikho, or Prai-ka- young. 



The Kai, or Kay, or G-aikho have no distinctive name for them- 

 selves, beyond Pra-ka-young, or Ka-young, their word for man. 



Ka appears occasionally as designating the people, but it signifies 

 land in their dialect, and properly denotes the country. 



