The Ahom literature, preserved in the books of the Assam priesthood, is said to be remarkable for the negative fact of there being in it no traces of the Hindu religion--either Buddhist or Brahminical. This speaks much either in favour of the antiquity of the conquest, or for the recent date of the Hindu influence. In A.D. 1695, the Brahminical religion was established in Assam: how much earlier is uncertain. THE KAMBOJIANS. _Locality._--Lower course of the Mekhong river. East of the Siamese, west of the Anamese, except so for as they may be separated by isolated mountain tribes, conterminous with these nations. Our knowledge respecting the Kambojians is not sufficiently definite to enable us to say how far they differ, or how far they agree with certain tribes of the interior, which have been described separately. In Prichard I find that they were supposed by the Portuguese to have been derived from a warlike nation of the interior, called _Kho_, or _Gueo_; who are still represented as painting and tattooing their bodies. Now these Kho, or Gueo, are probably the _Ka_ described along with the _Chong_, as a separate people. If so we are enabled to dispose of three unplaced tribes; since, by Crawfurd's Ka and Chong vocabularies we can connect, perhaps identify, them with the Kambojians. ENGLISH. KA. CHONG. KAMBOJIAN. _Sun_ tangi tańgi tangai. _Moon_ kot kang ke. _Stone_ tamoe tamok tamo. _Water_ dak tak tak. _River_ dak-tani talle tanle. _Fire_ un pleu plung. _Fish_ tre mel trai. _One_ moe moe moe. _Two_ bar bar pir. _Three_ peh peh bai. _Four_ puan pon buan. _Five_ chang pram pram. Most of the Ka, and Chong words which are not Kambojian are either Anamitic or Môn. Furthermore, in Crawfurd's Embassy to Siam, a vocabulary representing a fourth Kambojian dialect is given; the Khomen. THE BURMESE. _Locality._--Valley of the Irawaddi. Conterminous, save so far as interrupted by mountain-tribes, with Assam, China, Siam, and Pegu. _Divisions._--1. The Myamma, or Burmese of Ava. 2. The Rhukheng, or people of Arakan. _Religion._--Buddhist. _Alphabet._--Of Indian origin, a rounded form of the Pali. _Physical appearance._--More beard, more prominent features, and darker complexions than the Siamese, Anamese, and Chinese. Beard also more abundant. The darkness of complexion increasing towards the confines of Bengal. THE MÔN. _Locality._--The Delta of the Irawaddi; Pegu. _Alphabet._--Burmese.