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of Cochin-China ; others are only his tributaries, and 
others are mdependent.''* 
And farther on, when alluding to the cham of mouu- 
taina which separates Tonkirig from China, the Bishop 
sajBf that *' the greater part of these mountains are only 
inhabited by some barbarians ; the Cochin-Chinese, and 
much more the Europeans cannot Hve ou them, on 
account of the insalubrity of the au' which we breathe 
there/'t But he nowhere alludes to their physical 
character being distinct from that of the Cochin- 
Cliinese; and the only European traveller, as far as the 
writer has been able to discover, who contributed to fix a 
Papuan character on any of these tribes, is Mr. Charles 
Chapman, an officer in the civil service of the English East 
India Company, who was dispatched from Bengal on a 
diplomatic mission to Cochin-China, in the year 1778- 
Mr. Chapmaa'a Report to the Bengal Government is 
published in the ParViamentar)^ Papers relating to India^ 
from which the following extract is taken : 
" The aborigines of Cochin-China are called Moys, and 
are the p^ple which inhabit the chain of mountains 
which separate it fi-om Cambodia. To these strongholds 
they were driven, when the present possessors invaded 
the country. They arc a savage race of people, very 
blacky and resemble in their features the Caffrees/* 
A tribe called " Mai," which may be the same people, 
is also mentioned in an Essay on the Indo-Chinese 
countries in Moor's " Notices of the Indian Archipelago/' 
and which has been attributed to Mr, Crawfurd^ the 
* Le Pevre, " Journal," &c„ p, 50 
Tevre, "Journal," &c., p. 54, 
