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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal June 1839

1840

The language of the Cacharees of this and all the other villages I met was totally different from that of the inhabitants of the plain though they all go by the same name; the Hill Cacharee is called Hoje and that chiefly spoken on the plains called Ramsa. [...] Shortly after leaving the Aungootee we ascended a hill and passed the site of an old Naga village and then descended to the encampment of the Shans on a tongue of land formed by the junction of the Tomkee and Toolongkee rivers. [...] The jealousy existing amongst the different villages Is very great and after the Beren people had built our huts they said— There's such a village has done nothing make them build the railing." On the 26th the brother of Impuisjee one of the two greatest chiefs of the Angamees came to the village of Beren but would not come down to the camp until I had sent Ram Doss Mohurir accompanied by a N [...] About an hour afterwards it being evening the men were all cooking in the bed of the river when two Nagas sneaked up through the jungle from the opposite bank and threw two spears at the right flank men one of which lodged in the thigh of the dhobee and the other grazed the skin of a sepoy ; the Nagas instantly fled and several shots were fired in the direction they had gone which was all Th [...] 'faking twenty-five men under the Jemadar and the Kookee coolies and leaving the same number under the Subadar who had been ill since our leaving Semker to protect the baggage I proceeded up to the village which I found empty but saw parties of Nagas scattered about on the neighbouring hills and the villagers in a small stockade on the crown of a hill beyond the village.
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Pages
94
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Art. I.—Extracts from the Narrative of an Expedition into the Naga Territory of Assam. By E. R. Grange Esq. Sub-Asssistant to the Commissioner Assam
445-470 Acting Secretaries view
Art. II.—Report by Lieut. John Glasfurd Executive Engineer Kumaon Division on the Progress Made up to the 1st May 1839 in Opening the Experimental Copper Mine in Kumaon
471-480 Acting Secretaries view
Art. IV.—Notice of a Grant Engraved on Copper Found at Kumbhi in the Saugor Territory.—By the Editors
481-495 Acting Secretaries view
Art. V.—Mr. Middleton on the Meteors of August 10th 1839. To the Editor of the Asiatic Journal
495-496 Acting Secretaries view
Art. VI.—Note to the Editors on the Native Mode of Preparing the Perfumed Oils of Jasmine and Bela. By Dr. Jackson Ghazeepore
496-497 Acting Secretaries view
Art. VII.—Report on the Manufacture of Tea and on the Extent and Produce of the Tea Plantations in Assam. By C. A. Bruce Superintendent of Tea Culture
497-526 Acting Secretaries view
Art. VIII.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
526-534 Acting Secretaries view

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