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hy a Slave 'of the King's Eldest Son, 
natives of the country, who call themselves Moitay. Although 
tlie princes of this country claim a descent from Babhrubahan, 
the son of Arjun, by Ulupi, daughter of the Devil, that is, of a 
woman who was not by birth a Hindoo ; and although the claim 
to this most ancient , descent is admitted as true by all Hindus, 
and mentioned in their recoi’ds ; and although the Moitay are 
worshippers of Vishnu, yet their language seems to me radical- 
ly distinct from the Sangskrita, and their features entirely re- 
semble those of the other inhabitants of the Farther Peninsula. 
Beyond Kasi, the Mramnas place to the west Akabat, which we 
call Kachar, and to the north Ta3hka, which we call Asam; 
and these may be considered as clearly belonging to the penin- 
sula, although not included in this map, and although the 
natives of both countries now use the dialect of Bengal. 
The country of the Kasi Shan, on the upper part of the 
Khiaenducen river, is not mentioned by Major Rennell nor by 
Mr Arrowsmith, in his Map of Asia ; but is slightly noticed by 
the latter, under the name of Nora, In the Map of Asam, pu- 
blished along with that of Hindustan, from materials which I 
furnished. Nora, or the country of the Kasi Shan, when I was 
at Ava, was tributary to the King of the Mranmas, but had 
princes of its own of the same family with the dynasty which 
then governed Asam. The natives speak a dialect very little 
different from that of Siam, and call themselves Tay Loun; for 
the race called Shan by the Mranmas call themselves Tay, and 
Loun is the specific term for this portion of that extended race. 
By their neighbours of Kasi or ]\Ioitay, this kingdom is called 
Bong. 
South from the Kasi Shan is the country of the lo or Yo, a 
branch of the Mranma race, which occupies chiefly a territory 
on the banks of the Yowa, between two chains of hills, the 
mountains of the Khisen on the west, and that called Dankhii 
on the east. The latter is of little elevation, and ends on the 
Erwadi, a little below Pugan. The streams from the west side 
of the Khisen mountains run towards Arakan. 
The mountains of the Khioen, above mentioned, are said to 
be of great extent and considerable elevation, and are occupied 
chiefly by the tribe called Khiasn, from between tlie 12th and 
18th degrees of north latitude, to between the 18th and 19th, 
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