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'SﬁCﬁIJN' XII-thaws.

"ofjj’lfhmi mce- htWe exercised at pOWérfhl inﬂuence over the‘ fortunes' of _ ‘ "The.-  am mow the  inpaﬂant' branch- of this famijy. They am "_ bythe {linrz’nese Shangyai, 0;; eldest branch of the Slums; but'there was-once a. _ natﬁgh-‘of this people pocupying'a twat known to the- historians (if Manipux? as the ‘. .ki-h‘gdoxg (bf-P9113; Which't'ouahed Tippemh', Yuma: and Siam, ﬁnd of Which “the city milled ‘Mngong'lby the Burmese; and Mongmamng by 131108113118, Vina the? mp‘ital.;.-, ' ‘, the reign of Sukgmpha'," the thirteenth sovereign of the empire of Pong (Who succmdﬁd‘ his‘ fable”:- A; .D. 777),. his brothér SumIonpha, who was the geﬁeml of. 5161-0603.,MianngI-mﬂzjugatedDunbar, 'l‘ippemh and MatiIJLii'. pLL‘lhﬁd-IWI’OBB the hills_1,o‘.the Wiley lof‘the Bmlmpufm,‘ ﬁnd-communism there a series of ctmqluesta by, which these Shank gmdﬁaﬂy'mduced ﬁhe whole country, from Sadiyu.‘ to Kamrup, to subjection. I I .is ptcibqblc'thatlthis was effected by sewn-:11 inroads extending over several centurim, I I, as" the nun/211$; give the year, corresponding with .A. D. 1228; as that .of'the ' commenwm'ent; of the reign of Chukuﬁmﬁ who is said to have been the ﬁrst. to mumg fan‘himzwli‘ and _'people the "name Ahom the ‘ pnm‘less,’ and. 'to have given this ' 11mg, how sofa-med to Asnm; to the country. His suucesscir Chatumla. in- A; 13.1554: 'guioptud they Hindu religion and changed. his name. to Jaiyadhaju Singgh, and from his time the Axum. Kings always-tack Hindu- mmes mud favored Bmhmins, and f the Almih' :Sh‘ups}adopting the language and customs. its well as the religion of the con- ‘ quemdpémplé, .gxfew to be Hagar-dead as a new division or caste of the {Hindu Ammgae. -pop11kttiﬁt1;§'¥hith¢rthawing intruders; of an alien mac. ‘ 7 - ‘ Tim“kingd6m of l’ong was ﬁnally broken 11pby the Burmese King Alompm about the middltrof Inabcentury, :‘md on. its dismembenneut other. branches. of ﬁle Slum race migmhediwﬂuhd 301‘.th inrA'smL ' -- ' -'l.‘hb -1;»hakig.m- I’hakiﬁls,_cm the. Billing river, the Kamjangs of Sadiya, and the humbqu Mmﬂmﬁuﬁts. nf Kha'mtis' are, all (ablunies of this race, retaining the costume, ‘_éustoms, and réligi-On they hroﬁgbt with them into the valley. It be suﬁicient to -  thehttefxwmi aie the most numerous and impurtant.

_ '2 I'anﬁrﬁﬁh 3R. "8.. Repurtuou this Eamorn F mntiul‘ of Bl‘itiﬂh Ind-in, 1836-. r 1‘ .Bulyinm.~Awnn, IDcmg-iptiw Account of, 1841. -