They are so far civilized as to have taken their religion (Buddhism), and an alphabet from Ava or Pegu. THE QUANTO. The Quanto inhabit[14] the range of mountains between Anam and China. They represent the original civilization, or want of civilization, of Cochin-China and Tonkin,--_i.e._ of Cochin-China and Tonkin before the influence of China. They are in possession of an alphabet. THE TSHAMPA. Inhabitants of the southernmost[14] coast of Cochin-China. Their language, of which I have not seen a specimen, is said to differ from both the Chinese and the Kambojian. They are a civilized people, and were so in the time of Marco Polo. According to Crawfurd, their civilization was, to a certain extent, due to Indian influences. At present there is a Malay settlement on their coast. THE MOY. The southern part of the mountains which form the watershed between Cochin-China and Kambojia is the residence of the Moy. According to Chapman, they are eminently dark-complexioned; an observation which will be found in the sequel to apply to several other of the minor tribes of the division in question.[14] _Sub-divisions of the Laos branch of the Siamese._--As laid down in the maps, the Laos fill up the whole area between China on the north, Siam on the south, Cochin-China and Kambojia on the east, and Ava on the west; of this area, however, little is known in detail. One of the divisions of the Laos is called _Lau[14]-pang-dun_, or the _Black_ Laos, from the darkness of their complexion. Tribes, too, called _Pa-y_ and _Pa-pe_,[15] are said to be Laos. Lastly, the relations between the true Laos, and the Ahom, Khamti, and Shyán, have yet to be made out in a satisfactory manner. KARIEN. _Distribution._--Irregular; from the eleventh to the twenty-third degree of north latitude; from the Mergui Province in Tenasserim to the borders of China, between the Burmese on the west and the Siamese on the east. On the river Salwin, are the so-called _Red Karien_. _Name._--Burmese. Called _Kadun_ in Pegu. The Kariens, unless they are Siamese, have next to that nation the greatest extension, north and south. Ground down by the oppression of the Burmese, they are, with the exception of the _red_ Kariens, who still preserve an imperfect independence, a decreasing race. Of their language we have specimens[16] in more than one dialect, viz., the Passuko, Maplu, and Play. They are agricultural tribes, clearing the land for the cultivation of rice, and then leaving it to migrate elsewhere.--_Arva in annos mutant, et superest ager._ SILONG. _Locality._--Islands of the Mergui Archipelago. _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.