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my attention to Lewin's heading of the memoir, "From the French of
M. Bouchesiche, who translated the original from the English of J. Rennel,
Chief Engineer of Bengal .... Published at Leipsic in 1800." Mr. Edward
Heawood, Librarian of the Royal Geographical Society, to whom I am
indebted for much trouble taken in satisfying my curiosity, informed me that
Bouchesiche gave what purported to be an extract, translated into French,
from Bennell's well-known work on India, and that the Frenchman's book
was printed in Paris in 1800, although there may perhaps have been a Leipzig
issue also. The account of the Kukis given in Bouchesiche's work, however,
is not taken from any known work by James Rennell. Dalton in his
Ethnology of Bengal refers to what has been supposed to be the earliest
account of the Kukis—a memoir by Surgeon McCrea, which appeared in 1799
in Volume vii of Asiatic Researches. Mr. Heawood most kindly hunted up
McCrea's memoir, and found in it a reference to a memoir which appeared in
Volume ii of Asiatic Researches, 1790. The title of the memoir of 1790
runs "On the Manners, Religion, and Laws of the Oucis, or Mountaineers of
Tipra .... Communicated in Persian by John Rawlins, Esq." On
investigation, Mr. Heawood found that the Memoir of 1790 is undoubtedly
the original from which Boiichesiche drew his account in French, and of this the
account, attributed to " J. Rennel" by Colonel Lewin, is a rough paraphrase.
Note by the Rev. Walter K. Firminger.]