ARAKAN

[s. 66] : For sixty years a British province of Farther India, now a part of the province of Burma, since the war of annexation of 1885-86. clergy; secondly, to instruct the youth generally in both religious and secular knowledge; and thirdly, to print the very early liturgies and service books, to which the A yrians are separated from Burma proper by the is western Yoma range of mountains, which have many volcanoes, mostly quiescent, and rise from 4,000 to 10,000 feet above the level of the sea. The habitable portion is a narrow strip of alluvium, extending from the mountains to the Bay of Bengal. It extends from the westernmost of the delta branches of the Irawadi on the south to Chittagong on the north, and is bounded on the W. by the Bay of Bengal. Above Ramree Lsland the territory widens, and from 19° to 21° 30’ several short ranges of mountains are interposed between the Yoma range and the Bay of Bengal, and are inhabited mostly by the hill tribes. Its area is 16,500 square miles, and its population is 672,000. The people are of the same Mongoloid stock.as the Burmese, excepting the inhabitants of It The object of the Mi ion is stated to be “in first place to train up a body of literate the much attached, which have never been printed and of which the very primitive character is shown by their freedom from doctrine. doubtful The Mi ion seeks in no way to anglicanize the A yrians on the one hand; nor on the other to condone the heresy which separated them from the rest of Christen dom in the original, minimize its importance.” A committee connected with the Protestant Episcopal Church or to of the U. S., aids the mi ion. A seaport on the N. coast of Porto Population about 8,000; station of the (1901) with one mi ionary and his wife, ARECIBO Rico. ME: and a Sunday school. 66