The Ronte have a feast called "Va-en-la," which is given with the idea of enhancing the giver's importance in this world and assuring him comfort in the next. A pig is killed and thirty pots of zu are prepared, and the whole village makes merry. A long bamboo is planted in front of the house of the giver of the feast. Throughout its length this bamboo is transfixed with crosspieces of bamboo about 18 inches long; from its end depends a bamboo representation of a bird, whence the name of the feast--"va," in Ronte, as in Lushai, meaning "a bird," and "en," "to see." To show the similarity between the Tarau and the Lushai language I give a few words of each. ENGLISH. LUSHAI. TARAU. One Pa-khat Khat. Two Pa-hnih Ni. Three Pa-thum Thum. Four Pa-li Ma-li. Five Pa-nga Ranga. Six Pa-ruk Kuruk. Seven Pa-sari Siri. Eight Pa-riat Tirit. Nine Pa-kua Ku. Ten Shom Shom. Father Pa Pa. Mother Nu Nu. Son Fa-pa Sha-pa. (Thado, "chapa.") Daughter Fa-nu Sha-nu. House In Im. Sun Ni Ni. Moon Thla Thla. Water Tui Tui. To carry water, "tui choi," in both dialects. Dog Ui Uh. Mithan Shial Shil. Tree Thing Thing. Jhum Lo Lou. The east and west in Tarau are called "ni-chhuak-lam" and "ni-thlak-lam," which are pure Lushai for "the direction of sun rising and sun setting." Folklore. 1. Legends.--A large number of tales have been collected by Babu Nithor Nath Banerji, of the Manipur State Office, from which I select the following. They have all to a certain extent suffered by being told to the Babu in Manipuri instead of in the vernacular of the relaters. This accounts for Manipuri names being used in some cases.