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.(?) KHUMIA (CHOOMEEAS). _Locality._--The same mountains as the Kuki, only on a lower level. The word means _villagers_, _Khúm_=_village_. The Naga, Kuki, and Khumia, are tribes of one family. Their ethnographical position is certain. They have long been known to be part of Rhukheng division of the Burmese tribes, speaking the same language with the inhabitants of Arakan, and connecting themselves with that people in their traditions respecting their own origin. I may also add that the similarity of manners between them and the Garo is very manifest. KHYEN. _Locality._--The Yuma mountains between Ava and Arakan. Independent Pagans. _Name._--Burmese. Native name Koloun. Buchanan, in _Asiatic Researches_, vol. v. _Authority._--Lieutenant Trant in Asiatic Researches, vol. xvi. The faces of the Khyen women are tattooed. That the following reason, however, for the practice is valid, is more than I will venture to vouch. One of the forms of tribute to one of the conquerors of the Khyens, was the payment of a certain number of the most beautiful women of the country. In order to do away with the danger to which their unmutilated charms exposed them, the whole generation tattooed themselves; and their descendants have done so since. MANIPUR. _Synonyms._--Kathi or Kassay, Moitay. _Locality._--Bounded on the east by the right branch of the Irawaddi, on the north and west by the Naga and Kachari countries, on the south by the Khyen. An idea of the extent to which the language, for these parts varies within a small geographical area, may be collected from Captain Gordon's notices of the dialects spoken in the neighbourhood of Manipur. Besides the Manipur proper, the following eleven dialects are illustrated by his vocabularies,[17] and are said to be spoken within the limits of a very inconsiderable circle, of which Manipur is the centre. 1. The Songpú. The most western. Per-centage of Manipur words, 21. _Brown._ 2. The Kapwi. A very small tribe. _Ditto_, 41. _Brown._ 3. The Koreng. _Ditto_, 18. _Brown._ 4. The Maram. _Ditto_, 25. _Brown._