The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal December 1839

The province of Martaban part of which is at present Brithh and comprised under the name of the Province of Amherst was also inhbited by Talians whence they seem to have spread from the banks of the Salween to the eastward over the plains which are intersected by the waters of the Guin and Attaran. [...] The Seelongs are the inhabitants of the islands constituting the archiprlago of Mergui and are a race of wandering fishermen builing temporary huts of reeds palm-leaies and bamboos during the iclemency of the monsoon and passing the rest of the year either in boats or on the sea-beach under the shade of trees; they live upon the spontaneous productions of nature but chiefly upon the p [...] °Taking the inability of the population for granted the exactions from Ava were more moderate ; and when the exaction of the governors and the oppression of government bcame insupportable part of the population found an asylum in the wilds of the country. [...] Though few of the Burmese are exempted from the cares of life and the vicissitudes which attend a regular occupation xet disappointments are not often experienced ; and as only the repeated experience of disappointments creates patence and endurance the Burmese cannot possess that virtue."I 839.] on the TenasserinteProvinces 999 Love of children.—One of the chief virtues of the Burmese is t [...] Recapitulation of Me aforesaid.—After having touched upon the essence of religion the state of morals the characteristics and pecliarities of the people we are led to the following conclusion1. That the inhabitants of the Tenasserim Provinces possess the virtues of uncultivated nations.