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(22) Arakan Yoma, the Southern Chins have spread from between Sandoway and Thayetmyo across the Irrawaddy eastwards into the Pegu Yoma and are found here and there as far north as Taungdwingyi on one side of the hills and Pyin-mana on the other.

It seems fairly clear that the Chinbons of the Pakokku Chin Hills and Minbu should be treated as Southern Chins. Details about them are somewhat meagre, but, judging from the fact that their women's faces are tattooed an entire blue black and from a description of their dress, there can be little doubt but that they belong more properly to the Southern than the Central tribes. If this is so, however, and if it is a fact that the Pos, the Monyins and the Kos of the Kyaukpyu District are Chinbons, the last three tribes must be treated as Southern Chins also.

There is still some little doubt as to which division of the race the Chins who at one time inhabited the slopes of Popa in the Myingyan District belonged. If it is a fact, as stated by some, that the Popa Chins re-crossed the Irrawaddy when they quitted Popa and that the Taungthas of Pakokku are their descendants, they were probably Central Chins. If, on the other hand, they went south from Popa into the hills near Taungdwingyi, the inference would be that they were the northernmost of the migrants to the east referred to at the end of the last paragraph but one. The balance of probability is in favour of their belonging to the Central section of the Chins. For bibliographical table, see Page 57.

The Kamis and Mros have been dealt with here separately from the other Chin tribes, partly because they have for the past forty years formed the subject of independent observation, partly because they possess several marked