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IV. “ That country is the south-easternmost limit of the 
possessions directly subjected to the government of Hlassa. There 
begins the country called Lokatra by the Thibetans. Lokatra means 
the southern tatooed people. Lokapatra has nearly the same mean- 
ing : Kapa means lips.* * * § This last name which the Ilev. Mr. Fage 
never heard mentioned by the Thibetans may be likewise correct, 
because some of the wild tribes, both men and women, tatoo the lips 
and chin so as to resemble a beard. This same country is called 
Loke Patchan by the Chinese.f South of Bonga the tribe of the 
Louts is met with, and they occupy all the western country as far 
as that part of the Himalaya where in the maps the Mishmis are 
located. 
Y. “ In that extent of territory west of the Louts Kiang at a 
distance of about 30 miles, is to be met a range of high mountains. 
On the west of that range, is a river rather inconsiderable called 
Kouts Kiang or Scliete Kiang (both names are used by the Chinese). 
When it enters the Province of Yunan, it is known under the name of 
Lountchang Kiang, flows east of Tenine, and joins the Irrawaddy below 
Bhamo.J Between the Kouts Kiang and another considerable river 
that flows in the Irrawaddy, there are several ranges of mountains, 
the general direction whereof is from south to north. That river is 
named in the maps Gakbo Dzanbo. Its course through Thibet ap- 
pears to be very different from what has hitherto been supposed. 
Its junction with the Irrawaddy must be placed somewhat more in the 
south. That§ called by the Chinese Kanpoo-tsangbo, is named by 
the people of Bonga, Dzain, because it flows through the sub-pre- 
fecture of that name. In that district, according to the Thibetans, is 
* This no doubt refers to a passage in Father Giorgi’s Alphabetum Tihetanum, 
p. 423, where describing the province of Tak-po which is that to the east of 
Jmatze (or Teshoo Loombo of our maps), he says it is bounded on the south by 
the Lholeaha-patra or the “Southern Cut-mouths” “quod populi hi meridionals 
labia gerunt incisa.” — Y. 
t Klaproth has got the Illokba or Illokabadja north of Burmah near the 
Irawadi, but probably transferred from the Uimaluya far to the west, to meet his 
theories. — Y. 
$ This must be the Shony-lee of the Burmese, which empties its water in tire 
Irrawaddy about 55 miles south of Bhamo. On leaving the Province of Yunan 
the Shoay lee flows through mountainous districts, inhabited by Shans, winds 
through a very extensive flat country in a south-western direction, and finally 
joins tlie great river of Burmah. At its mouth, there is an island upon which 
is a small village called Shoay-lee-wa-youa . — Note by Bishop Bigandel. 
§ I have no doubt this should be “ this river”— i. e. the Gakbo-dzanbo of 
the maps, — Y. 
