S64 Dr Hamilton m a Map ofAva, drawn 
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that is, for about 400 miles ; but the breadth occupied by this 
people is in a small proportion to the length. The Khiaen fornr 
one of the rude original tribes of the peninsula, and the great- 
er part is entirely independent of any more cultivated race ; 
but those who live towards the south are exposed to the inroads 
and commercial oppressions of the Mranmas, and submit to a 
limited obedience. Both sexes of this tribe are distinguished by 
having their faces, as well as their bodies, tatooed, to use a term 
of the South Sea islanders, now common in our language. The 
Khiien have made more advances in manufacture than any other 
of the rude tribes of the Farther Peninsula, and weave silk 
cloths that are in high request at the court of Ava. 
Farther west than the independent Khiaen, but not mentioned 
in this Map, a very large space is occupied by the most warlike 
and extended of these rude tribes, which is called Laengaeh by 
the Mranmas, a name changed by the Bengalese into Lingta ; 
but among these Hindus, this rude tribe is more commonly call- 
ed Kungky Kooky, or, as Sir William Jones wrote, Cuci. Most 
of this tribe, however, with whom I have conversed, called them- 
selves Zou, and their territories extend close to Manipur and 
Kachar. Some of their chiefs seem to be possessed of a little 
power, and on predatory excursions can bring several thousand 
men to the field. 
South from the Laengaeh or Cuci, and west from the Khiaen, 
that have become tributary to Ava, is the country called Rak- 
hain, a name which has been corrupted by various people into 
Roang, Roshawn, Aracan, &c. This, however, is rather the 
vulgar name of the capital than of the people, who, by those of 
Ava, are called Great Mranmas, as being the original source of 
the whole race. The people of Rakhain, however, write their 
name Marama, making it consist of three syllables, while in the 
orthography of Ava it has only two, and the R in their pro- 
nunciation is changed into Y or J. From the name Maga, Mo- 
go, Moghi or Mug, given by the Portuguese, and, perhaps, 
Low Bengalese, to the Rakhain, Dr Leyden imagined this to be 
the Magadha of the Hindu writers, as if the principal kingdom 
in India or Bharatkanda had been situated in an obscure corner 
of the Farther Peninsula, and not on the banks of the Ganges. 
' This part of the Map is very defective, the towns called Janbra 
