26 THE ET UNO LOOT OF tOUTH EAITKBN ASIA, 



Chong, Ka or Panong in the lower part of the Mekong basin * ; the 

 lau under the various names of Lolos, Lawn, Lau, Thai,Siatn, Shyan 

 or Shan, A bom [A-sam, or A-syanAanda being convertible] KhanHi, 

 &c, extending from their native seat in Yun-nan over tha 

 greater^ , part of the basin of the Mekong, the entire basin 

 of the MenatOj the adjacent portions of the Malay Peninsula, 

 and the upper and much of the middle portions of the basins 

 of the Salticn and Irawadi, and a portion of the baf.'n of the 

 Brahmaputra j the Karen,f Red Karen, Palong or Zabain£, 

 Ka-kyen, Khanunjr, Singphu, Khaku and other tribes in the bastn 

 of the Saluen and the eastern and partially in the southern basin 

 of the Irawadi ; the Khyeng, Burmese, Jtakbaing (Arrakan) 

 Khumi, Kyau, Ma^, Shindu, Boneju, Kuki, Manipuri tribes, 

 Kachari and Naga in the basin of the Irawadi and Koladan and 

 partly in that of the Brahmaputra ; the Garo, Khye or Kasia, 

 Kocch, Bodo, Dhimal, Kichak, Tharu, Denwar, Pollah, JBoksar, 

 Mikir, Mishmi, Abor, Miri, Bibor, Barkan, Simoitg, Dhupla, 

 Akha, Lhop, Kusttnda, Chepan^, Rongbo or Serpa, Lepcha, 

 Ekthumba or Ltmbu, Kiranti, Munni, Newar, Jaruia, Sunwar, 

 Gumng, Magar, and several other Himalayan tribes on the 

 northern side of the Gangetic basin, and the Gond, Kol, Khond, 

 and RajmahaU on the south. { 



• The names given by the civilised communities to the steppe, mountain and 

 forest tri 1 *•» are generic and descriptive, e. g. the Satoi, Bmua, Daya 1 of ibe 

 Malays (the first bt-lng of Indian origin, Saba, the wild Scythian or Turanian tribes, 

 Saka-lava the great Saka of Madagascar); the I'aharia, Vatbatia. Jffcoj, &c, 

 of the Hindus ; in more ancient time* the Soiun$ t Rahsasas &c. In all these des- 

 criptive names many tribe* with distinct languages, and unconnected with each. 

 oiJvr, are confounded. So with the Chinese generic names for the rude tribes, 

 At ov?-^a,M(7n, Fan^c. In theb uino. the Mekong as in that of the Irawadi there mi at 

 lie numeio..8 dbtinct tribes of which the namrj are not known. The lenn Miumg 

 1b a Lau word meaning simply village or district, and its frequent occurrence in 

 the S. and W. portions of the map of Yun-nan shows the prevalence of the Lou 

 race there. It k probably connected with Mong {Mongol #e.) Mang or Ma/t (the 

 southern Chinese tribedj, and the Mou or Man of Pegu. Is it not primitively 

 identical with the Indo — European man, vmmwia fee. which is widely spread as 

 the name of mankind, or of particular tribes, In Africa and A slaneijia. A large 

 number of tribe names in all parts of the world are simply the words which the 

 tribes uw: for man, or which hare at one time been so used. The great spread of 

 •omeiwtiinal names is remarkable e. g. Kham t Khnntj, Cham, or Ham, found in 

 Mongolia, Tibet, the Irawadi and Brahmaputra basins, Bengal, the basin of the 

 Mekong, the southern extremity of the A nam mountain band tec, Is it net radi- 

 cally the same at Khan or Hart a chief of a trine,, or a tribe, which the Abors, 

 Misnrai, and Singphu preserve in Gaum a clan, the May am a in nvuvg* village, 

 and the Malays in Kit urn a flan or family, and tamung^um/a title (also of Mayama 

 origin). So the Kwn, Kain, Kaing £c. t of the Arrucan range ia found in Kakain 

 or la-kaiii (the civilised race of Arracan}, probably In the name of the widely 

 spread Karen tribes (r and y being convertible in numy of the Irawadi languages.) 

 and in the Kaytns and Ka havens of N. and S. Borneo. The Ha of Kakain U 

 preserved in the name of a kindred Sumatra race, the Itau or Hatca, and the full 

 name in that of their river, Raton. On the onposte side of the Strait we find the 

 Jakun which has a close resemblance to Yakain {j and y being convertible). 

 There are many Interesting facts connected with the names of the tribes of E. Asia 

 and Asianesia which will be considered separately. 



t Karen, Kay en Ste,— appear to be variations of one generic word, applied to 

 numerous tribes speaking distinct languages, 



t We shall give the names of ail the known tribes in each district of 8. E. Asia 

 in our ethnographic sections. We have omitted several. 



