e8 On the Inhabitants of 



mountains, riling one above another; but on nearer approach they vanifBv 

 except the Gonqflers, the lower range, in appearance infignificantly fmalh 

 The verdure and rich land, however, fully recompenee the lofs ; and, turn 

 your eye which way you will, you fee fomething to cheer the mind, and 

 raife the fancy, in the numerous fmall villages round about, protected from 

 the heat by a variety of trees inter fperfed. 



The fkft pafs, I went to, was Gbofegong, fituated on the weft fide of 

 the Natie river. Here a great number of Gar rows refide at the foot of the. 

 pafs in three villages, Ghofegong, Gho'nie and Borack. The head people of 

 the villages are called Boneahs, a name ufed by the head Rajas in Bengal,, 

 when the king refided at Gour. Whence they derived this name, I could. 

 not learn ; and many other things, which might lead to difcoveries, efcap- 

 td my knowledge from the want of a good interpreter. 



Oodassey Booneah is looked on as the headman of this pafs at 

 prefent, having moft influence with his feci:; but the rightful chief is 

 Momee, a woman, and her power being, by eflablifhed ufage, transferable by 

 marriage to her hufbaud, he ought in confequence to preflde ; but, from his 

 being a young and filly man, the chieffhip is ufurped by Oodassey, and; 

 his ufurpation is fubmitted to by Momee and her hufband. Oodassey 

 however is by no means a violent or artful man. He is far from pofTefTmg 

 a bad difpofition, is a mild man, and by all accounts takes great pains to 

 do jult,ice 8 and keep up unanimity with his people. 



The village Ghojegcmg is furrounded by a little jungle. On pafling it 

 trie village is opened to your fight, confiding of Chaungs ©r Houfes from 

 about thirty to 150 feet long, and twenty or forty broad, 



