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Thibet, Yiman and Burrndh. 
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poo lie describes the district of Tsarong, or Tsatsorken, terminating on 
the Dokerla north of their establishment. And between the district 
of Tsarong and the Dzaing are the pastures of Dromba.* “ All that 
country” the paper says, but evidently in English we should say “ all 
this country” viz. of Dromba, in which are the sources of the Kuts- 
kiang, is purely Thibetan,” and all south of it is peopled with savages. 
These are probably the Mishmis and other tribes adjoining the upper 
Brahmaputra. 
I can add nothing of any use regarding the wild tribes catalogued 
in the latter part of the letter. The indications are nearly all too vague, 
and Bishop Bigandet has anticipated the few remarks that could be 
made. 
It should be noticed that when this paper was read, I was under 
the impression, derived from high authority in matters geographical, 
that the Abbes Krick and Boury had been murdered, not on the 
upper Brahmaputra, but near the banks of the Dihong. Accidentally 
Major Dalton, the officer who made the official investigation into the 
crime, and by whom the murderer was convicted, was present at the 
meeting and corrected this impression. It need scarcely be said that 
the assumed position on the Dihong would have been much more 
difficult to reconcile with the Vicar Apostolic’s statements. Several 
passages in the present comment have been altered in accordance 
with this correction. 
Letter to the Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, on some 
Recent Statements touching certain of the Gupta Kings and others. 
— By Fitz-Edwaed Hall, Esquire, I). C. L. 
Sir, — With many other well-wishers of India, I hail it as an 
encouraging sign, that the natives of this country are beginning, here 
and there, to evince an intelligent interest in the history of their 
* This should perhaps be Dromla. There is a range of mountains called 
Douroungla in this position in Klaproth’s map. La 1 believe in Thibetan signifies 
a mountain pass. 
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