Everything for which superhuman knowledge is supposed to be
available." (Hodgson, J.R.As.Soc. XVIII. 397; The Tinnevelly
Shanars, by the Rev. R. Caldwell, B.A., Madras, 1849, pp. 19-20.)
[1] "Singpho," says Colonel Hannay, "signifies in the Kakhyen
language 'a man,' and all of this race who have settled in Hookong or
Assam are thus designated; the reason of their change of name I could
not ascertain, but so much importance seems to be attached to it, that
the Singphos, in talking of their eastern and southern neighbours,
call them Kakhyens or Kakoos, and consider it an insult to be called
so themselves." (Sketch of the Singphos, or the Kakhyens of
Burma, Calcutta, 1847, pp. 3-4.) If, however, the Kakhyens, or
Kachyens (as Major Sladen calls them), are represented by the
Go-tchang of Pauthier's Chinese extracts, these seem to be
distinguished from the Kin-Chi, though associated with them. (See pp.
397, 411.)
[2] [Mr. E.H. Parker (China Review, XIV. p. 359) says that Colonel
Yule's Langszi are evidently the Szilang, one of the six
Chao, but turned upside down. - H.C.]
[3] Cathay, etc., pp. ccl. seqq. and p. 441.
[4] Written in 1870.
CHAPTER LI.
WHEREIN IS RELATED HOW THE KING OF MIEN AND BANGALA VOWED VENGEANCE
AGAINST THE GREAT KAAN.
