Numbers.—Said to be about one thousand.
Language.—Said to be peculiar.
Authority.—Dr. Helfer's Third Report on the Tenasserim Provinces.—Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. viii.
The details now forthcoming apply to the districts lying north of a line drawn from the southernmost point of Arakan to the Irawaddi; and they comprise the eastern extensions of the Arakan tribes, the parts about Manipur, and the complex, but important line of frontier between the Indo-Chinese kingdoms, and the Indian portions of Bengal and Assam.
The first tribes that will be noticed are those which are most closely related to the inhabitants of Arakan.
NAGAS.
Locality.—South-east Assam, in the north-eastern portion of the mountain range between Assam and the Burmese empire. Conterminous with the Singpho on the north-east.
KUKI.
Locality.—Mountains of Tipperah, Sylhet and Chittagong. A south-western prolongation of the Nagas.
Synonyms.—Lunctas, Koung-thias.(?)