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KON'NIGSEK. See IConigseck. 
KON'NO, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 
feventy miles north-weft of Meaco. 
KO'NOE, one of the Faroer Iflands: two miles north 
of Bardoe. 
KONOHAS'SET, a town of the ftate of Maflachufetts: 
twelve miles fouth-eaft of Bofton. 
KO'NOS, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: twenty 
miles north-eail of Degnizlu. 
KON'OTOP, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
-Novgorod Siverlkoi: fifty-two miles fouth of Novgorod 
Sieverfkoi. Lat. 51. 5. N. Ion. 33. 34. E. 
KONOW'A, a town of Bohemia, in Rakonitz : feven 
miles north-north-weft of Rakonitz. 
KON'SAN, a town of Africa, in the Sierra Leone 
country. Lat. 10.44. N. Ion. 12. 15. W. 
KONSTA^TINGRAD, a town of Raffia, in the go- 
ment of Ekaterinoflav: fifty-fix miles north of Ekaterino- 
flav. Lnt. 49. 15. N. Ion. 34. 52. E. 
KONSTANTINOVSKA'IA, a fortrefs of Ruffia, in 
the government of Ekaterinoflav, on the borders of Tur¬ 
key : 160 miles weft of Ekaterinoflav. Lat. 47.40. N. 
Ion. 30, 50. E. 
KON'TOP, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Glogau: eighteen miles north-north-weft of Gros Glogau, 
and fifteen eaft of Grunzberg. 
KOOCH, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Agra: ninety-five miles fouth-eafe of Agra, and fixty eaft 
Gwalior. Lat. 26. N. Ion. 79. 35. E. 
KOO'GAAE, a river of Denmark, which runs into the 
tea at ICioge. 
KOO'HANGAN, a fmall ifland in the Sooloo Archi¬ 
pelago. Lat. 6. 3. N. Ion. 121. 18. E. 
KOO'J AR, a town of Africa, in the country of Wool¬ 
ly : fifty-four miles eaff: of Medina. 
KOO'KIES, or Cu'cis, a race of people that live on 
the frontiers of Britifh India, among the mountains to 
the north-eaft of the Chittagong province, at a greater 
diftance than the Choomeeas from the inhabitants of the 
plains ; to whom therefore they are little known, and 
with whom they very rarely have any intet’courfe, except 
when they occafionally vifit the hauts, or markets, on the 
borders of the jungles in the Runganeeah and Auranga¬ 
bad diftrifts, to purchafe fait, dried fifli, and tobacco. 
The following account of them was taken from a native 
of the Runganeeah diftrift, who, when a boy, W'as carried 
away, in one of their predatory excurfions, and, after a 
captivity of twenty years, found means to return to his 
family. 
The Kookies, or Lunclas, (as they are alfo called,) are 
the leaft civilized, of any of the people we as yet know, 
•among thefe mountains ; like all mountaineers, they are 
of an aftive mufcular make, but not tall; they are ftout- 
er, and of a darker complexion, than the Choomeeas ; and, 
like them, have the peculiar features of all the natives of 
the eaftern parts of Alia, namely the flat nofe, fmall eye, 
and broad round face. The tradition of the Kookies re- 
fpefting their origin is, that they, and the Mugs, are the 
offspring of the fame progenitor, who had two Tons, by 
different mothers. The Mugs, they fay, are the defeend- 
ants of the eldeff, and the Kookies of the youngelt, fon. 
The mother of the youngelt having died during his in¬ 
fancy, he was negiefted by his ftep-mother, who, while 
file clothed her own fon, allowed him to go naked ; and, 
this partial diltinftion being ftill obferved, as he grew up, 
he went by the name of LunEta , or the naked. Upon the 
death of their father, a quarrel arofe between the brothers, 
which induced the Luneta to betake himfelf to the hills, 
and there pafs the remainder of his days. His defeend- 
ants have continued there ever fince, and ftill go by the 
jiame of Lunftas; though, properly fpeaking, the term is 
applicable only to the male part of them, as the females 
wear a fliort apron before, made of cloth of their own ma¬ 
nufacture, and which falls down from the loins to the mid¬ 
dle of the thigh; and both fexes oceafionally throw a 
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loofe flieet of cloth over their bodies, to defend them from 
the cold. This tradition of their origin receives much 
fupport from the great fimilarity of the Mug'and Kookie 
languages, many words of which are exadtly the fame, 
and their general refemblance is i'uch that a Mug 'and 
Kookie can make themfelves underftood by each other. 
The Kookies are all hunters and warriors, and are di¬ 
vided into a number of diftinft tribes, totally independent 
of each other, though all of them acknowledge, more or 
lefs, the authority of three different rajahs, named Than- 
don, Mankcne , and Halcha, to whom the various tribes are 
attached, but w-hofe power over them is very limited, ex¬ 
cept in that tribe with which the rajah lives, where he is 
abfolute. The rajahfhips are hereditary; and the rajahs, 
by way of diftinfticn, wear a fmall flip of black cloth 
round their loins; and, as a farther mark of fuperior rank, 
they have their hair brought forward, and tied in a bunch, 
lo as to overfhade the forehead, while the reft of the Koo¬ 
kies have theirs hanging loofe over the fhoulders. The 
females alfo of the rajah’s family wear an apron of black 
cloth, with a red border, which falls down to the knee, a 
colour and fafliion prohibited to the reft of the fex, black 
being the royal colour. The rajahs receive a tribute in 
kind from the tribes, to fupport their dignity ; and, in 
cafes of general danger, they can fummon all the warriors 
to arms; but each tribe is under the immediate command 
of its own particular chief, vvhofe word is a law in peace 
and war, and who has the power of life and death in his 
tribe. The chieftainftiip is not hereditary like the rajah- 
fliip, but elective, though in general the neareft relation 
of the laft chief fucceeds him, if deemed by the tribe a 
proper perlbn for the truft, and the rajah cannot remove a 
chief once elected, fliould he difapprove of him. 
The Kookies are armed with bows and arrows, fpears, 
clubs, and daws, an inftrument in common ufe among the 
natives of this province as a hand-hatchet, and exaftly 
refembling the knife of the Nyars on the Malabar Coaft, 
which is a mod deflruftive weapon in clofe combat. They 
ufe fliields of the hide of the gyal, (a fpecies of cow pecu¬ 
liar to their hills;) and the iniide of their fliields they or¬ 
nament with fmall pendulous plates of brafs, which make 
a tingling noife, as the warriors tofs about their arms, ei¬ 
ther in the fight or in the dance. They alfo wear round 
their necks large firings, of a particular kind of (hell 
found in their hills; about their loins, and on their thighs, 
immediately above the knee, they tie large bunches of 
long goat’s hair, of a red colour; and on their arms they 
have broad rings of ivory, in order to make them appear 
the more terrific to their enemies. They choole the 
fteepeft and moft in 3 cceflible hills to build their villages 
upon, which, from being thus fituated, are called paraks, 
or, in the Kookie language, khooah. Every parah confifts 
of a tribe, and has leldom fewer than four or five hun¬ 
dred inhabitants, and fometimes contains one or two 
thoufand. Towards our frontiers, however, where there 
is little apprehenfion of dangdr, a tribe frequently fepa- 
rates into feveral fmall parties, which form lo many differ¬ 
ent parahs on the adjoining hills, as may bsft fuit their 
convenience. To give further fecurity to the parahs, in 
addition to their naturally llrong fituation, the Kookies 
furround them with a thick bamboo pallifade ; and the 
paflages leading into them, of which there are commonly 
four or five in different quarters, they itrictly guard, day 
and night, efpecially if there is any fufpicion of danger; 
but, whether there is or is not, they are at all times ex¬ 
tremely jealous of admitting ftrangers within the parahs. 
They build their lioufes as clofe to each other as poifible, 
and make them fpacious enough to accommodate four or 
five families in every houfe. They con. Peru ft them after 
the manner of the Choomeeas and *Mugs, that is, on plat¬ 
forms or ftages of bamboo, raifed about fix feet from the 
ground, and enter them by ladders, or, more frequently, 
by a fingle ftick, with notches cut in it, to receive the 
foot; underneath the ftages they keep their'domeftic ani¬ 
mals. Ail thefe precautions of defence ftrongly indicate 
