The last eleven dialects are not spoken in any British dependency; and they have only been mentioned for the sake of explaining the table. All belong to one and the same class; a point upon which I see no room for doubt; although respecting the _value_ of that class I admit that some exists. For this, the term _Burmese_ is as good as any other--without professing to be better; yet, should it seem too precise, there is no objection to the sufficiently general term of _monosyllabic_ being substituted for it. The reader, however, may doubt the fact of the affinities. This has been done. Long before the present writer knew of such dialects as the Jili, Mishimi, Aka, Abor, Singpho, and the like, he had satisfied himself that the Garo was monosyllabic, and had so expressed himself in 1844,[32] when Brown's Tables had been published, though not seen by him. It was with surprise, then, that he found the author of them writing, that "it would be difficult to decide from the specimens before us, whether it is to be ranked with the monosyllabic or polysyllabic languages. It probably belongs to the latter." Again, Mr. Hodgson makes the Garo Tamulian, _i.e._, polysyllabic; a fact which will be noticed again when the Bodo, Dhimal, and Kocch have been disposed of. _The Kocch_, _Bodo_, and _Dhimal_ is the title of one of that writer's works--a model of an ethnological monograph. This gives us a new class. The Bodo of Hodgson are the wild tribes that skirt the Himalayas, from Assam to Sikkim. West of these, between the river Konki and the river Dhorla are the Dhimal, a small tribe mixed with Bodo; and, southwards, in Kocch Behar, are the Kocch. The two former are so much described together that a separation is difficult. This leaves us at liberty to follow the details of either one population or of both. The history of a Bodo from his cradle to his grave is as follows. The birth is attended with a _minimum_ amount of ceremonies. Midwives there are none; but labours are easy. Neither has the priest much to do with ushering-in the new-comer to the world. A short period of uncleanness is recognized, but it is only a short one; the purification consisting in the acts of bathing and shaving performed by the parties themselves. Four or five days after delivery, the mother goes out into the world; and at that time, the child is named. Any passing event determines this; as there are no family names, and no names taken from their mythology. The account, however, of Mr. Hodgson, in this respect is somewhat obscure, "A Bhotia chief arrives at the village, and the child is named Jinkháp; or a hill peasant arrives, and it is named Gongar, after the titular, or general designation of the Bhotias." As long as a mother can suckle a child (or _children_) she continues to do so, sometimes for so long a period as three years, when the last and last but one may be seen sucking together.