Bghai or Bweh.—From the mouth of the Thou kye-Khat creek to near the British boundary and the Shan State of Mo-bya, the whole country from the Sitang to the Salwin is peopled nearly exclusively by tribes to whom the Sgau and the Pa-ku give the name of Bghai. The Bghai or Bweh are met with immediately north of the Sgau and Pwo, on the left bank of the Sitang, and on the watershed between it and the Salwin.
Lushai.—The high mountain range called Modu ting, Mranidong, and Yomdong, forms a natural boundary between Chittagong and Arakan. The Koladyn flows about 16 miles distant on the east, and the country there is mostly uninhabited. To the west are the Lushai.
The Skidoo are a recently intruded tribe. They are the most warlike tribe, and exist in large numbers outside the boundary of British Burma, and are said to be pressing the Kway-mi and 3Iru southwards. They are probably the same race as the Kuki, who, according to Colonel Dalton, stretch from the valley of the Koladyn to the border of Manipur and Cachnr. Their language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family.
The .1:tviry:Ini or Ka-mi (dog-tail) differ but little from tha3fru. Both these races are moving southwards. Sir Arthur Phayro believed them to form a branch of the Myain-ma race, from which the Brumes° and Arakanese spring, and he considers the hill tribes to be prior occupants. They number about 19,000, two-thirds of whom are in the hills of N. Arakan, the rest having settled on the Akyab plains. They have black, straight hair, high cheek-bones, oblique eyes, and scanty bolds. They appear, like the Rak haing-tha, in a ;pore rude state of existence, and the traditions of tho latter people refer, to the Ka-mi as prior occupants.
The 7'ernigthit in personal appearance and dress somewhat resemble the Shan. They arc short of stature, and thickly built. Their language is tonic, and closely connected in vocabulary and syntax with the Pwo Karen. They are a clannish, taciturn people. Their name signifies 'Amin], but they call themselves Pao, and are divided into many local, clans'. In British Burma thdy number about 30,000 in the Amherst district, on the banks of the Salwin, and along the Thatone range of hills, and about 5000 east of Kyi Keto.
Northern Arakan hill tracts comprise a dis trict about 60 miles long and 40 broad. There are six distinct clear ranges, and two important rivers with their affluents pierce the mountains. Till recent years the whole of this region was the home of many wild and lawless clans, who lived amidst constant rapine and and the British policy has been to mark a boundary for the more civilised possessions. In 1875-76 there
were four tribes within the British territory, numbering 12,442 souls. Rakhaing or Khyoung tha, sons of the river, 1219 ; Khami or Rhwe-myi, 7172 ; Anu or Khoung-tso-Khyeng, 2162 ; Khyaw or Kuki Mro, 2126. The Aim outside the boundary are the worst of the marauders.
The Khgen are the largest of the numerous hill tribes of Arakan. They occupy the Yoma range of mountains between Pegu and Arakan, are numerous in tho hill tracts of Northern Arakan, and on the eastern side of • the Irawadi, in the uplands of Promo and Myedai, and tin the watershed between the Irawadi and Sitang: There arc also some 5000 in Sandoway. Captain Ilaunay says they are identical with the Naga. Colonel Yule thinks they are nearly allied to the Kuki. Dr. Mason classes them with the Pwo Karen. They are a retiring, timid race ; are migratory, but are settling down under British rule, following the practice of jhoom or touug-ya cultivation. In British Burma they number over 50,000, partly in Arakan' and • in Pegu, chiefly in Thayat-Myo and Prairie, :with settlements on the north of Pegu as far as Tounghoo. The Chin or Khyen are widely extended in British Burma, being on both sides of the Arakan roma, also in the Thayat-Myo and Promo districts to the east of the Irawadi river, and are in large numbers in Upper )3nrma.. They point to the Chindwin river as their ancient home. They tattoo the faces of- their young girls so as not to leave even an eyelid free from hideous blue-black deformlly.. Their language has ailinities with the Pwo Karen.
The Chaco. area small tribe of 587 souls in North Arakan. They are connected with the Kuki.
The Sal,: or Thek are in the Akyab district.
Shan of the Burmese are the Po-yi of the Chinese, and the Tai of the Siamese. Po-yi means White Barbarian. The Shafts are behind the Chinese in the arts, but in Burma every article of husbandry of iron, brass, or silver is from the Shag, States N. and E. of the capital, also the best of the lacquered ware, the last principally from Monai to the E. of Lower Pagan. The Shan States also manufacture silk, and the Sham of the N.E. and the Cathay Sham or Munipuri know the art of dyeing both cotton and silk. The silks are exceedingly rich, and of varied check patterns.