RA-K HAI NG, a mce occupying Antkan, towards the embouchure of the Koladyn rirer, haring the Silk, Kutni, and Khyen on their north-east and south. A settlement of Ra khaing has been made on the Tenasserim coast in long.tiS E., front lat. 13° 40' to 14' 30*N., east of the Moseos Island& They are a branch of the Burmese ho separated themselves from the main stock at a very early period. The people of India ad! them Mug. a natne of Persian or Arabic origin, unknown to the Ita-khaing themselve& They call them/Ares Myauut-gyi, or great Myaina. They give their name to Amkan.
Bonizu or Bunzu, called also Bondu, are a tribe of the Ra-kludeg who dwell north of the Koladyn river. They have on their north the laingkta, Kungye, or Kuki in the highland,' of Tiperah. Tho Bomzu and the Kuki seem to belong to the Burman ntee. The seaboard and the lower portions of the Talley& opening into it, form the country of the Ra-IChoung-tha, or Arakan tribe, of whom the Burmans are a branch. Some are found residing on the banks
of the mountain streatns, and are distinguished by the name of Khoung-tha. Their language proves that they do not belong to the Yuma group, but are intruders from the north ; and their own traditions recognise the Ku-mi as the tribe in possession of the seaboard when they entered Arakan.
The Mrung, in the upper basin of the 3fayu and towards the hill frontier of Chittagong, are a colony imported from the Bodo country by the kings of Arakau, at the period when their conquests extended far up Eastern Bengal.
On the south of Assam is the prominent Bur mese race, who profess Buddhism, and south of them the British province of Pegu, containing Burmese, Mon, also called Talaing.,, Khe Karen, Karen-ni or Red Karen, the Khyen, whose women tattoo their faces, the Yet Baing on the Yoma range, and the Shan who form separate com munities.—Itfason's Burm. p. 62.