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On our home, we passed bushes of wild roses way and quiteimpenetrable. I have already alluded character to the turbulent of Kotwal Koireng, the Maharajah'sfourth son, and again,I was to have fresh evidence of it. Early now, in May, I heard of his having three men so severely had died, and two beaten that one were dangerously I found that the men ill. On investigation, had been tied up and beaten on the back, it was said, for two hours and slapped on the face at the same I time.

In old days,under our earlypolitical agents, such an ofiFence would have passed unnoticed. It was a pointgained the case to have investigatedand adjudicatedon by the Maharajah, and anything approaching to an in the troubles inflicted. Since adequate sentence Manipur, I have seen it stated that the sentence was was one not, the prince a nominal ; that it certainly banished if he surreptitiously to Thanga, and was in public, he did not appear appeared at the capital, and when I left Manipur on long leave,earlyin , stillin banishment. May 31st, we all left Manipur on our way to England, and my children bade adieu to a most It was a sad parting for most of us, happy home.

We' reached Cachar on June as possibleon high 8th, having halted as much ground. The rivers were in flood,and sometimes there On. We difficulty long on June 9th, and arrived there leaving again on the 21st for Bombay, on July 5th, we sailed for England. I left England again on September 7th, and my devoted wife,far less fit than I was for the trials of the long journey, accompanied me, as she would not I could.

Shillongon October 18th, , and, the after connected with arranging all matters boundary settlement with the Chief Commissioner, started reached that for Cachar, and place on October 25th, leavingagain for Manipur next day, and marching to Jeree Ghat, where we met were by the usual marches, and made Thangal Major, We reached November 4th, the Jubraj Manipur on at me coming out with a large retinue to meet Phoiching,eight miles from the capital.

The with Pagan Woon expectedbut did not arrive,and the Phoongyee had. The men in only latelyreturned from Afghanistan,and were fine condition, but they said that the country between Kandahar and Kabul, was nothing to that between Ingorok and Kongal Tannah. Every day many men and and reached camp, hours after me were footsore, be no doubt that for some can my Manipuris. There hills and junglesare far other the Eastern reason or more trying than those of the North- West frontier.

However, at last we arrived safelyat Kongal, and I and Sumjok officials, to whom though the Burmese had written politeletters asking them to meet me, did not turn up, the survey work went on merrily. On the 18th, Colonel Badgley, who had come by an independentroute through the hills,joined my.

This was very satisfactory, the day before I had been much as annoyed by the of the Sumjok authorities having prevented some former fears coming to pay their respects to me. Manipuri lest there should be detachments as collision, a the atmosphere was gettingvery warlike,and only required a spark to produce a conflagration. All the populationof the Kubo said to be valleywere talked to Burmese mitted we frankly adarming.

The if there with. The Chussads were negotiationwith the Kukis. My friend Dun, who badly wounded by a paiigee bamboo stake had to be carried.

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Ogle'sparty went oflFto the north, were escorted through the villageof Choomyaiig by Lieutenant These Dun. This affair left Kongal on We Dun managed with great tact. I sent to the a Choomyangs and other message had given trouble,tellingthem that they who Kukis were undoubtedly within Manipur, and that I gave clear them to submit, or forty-twodays in which out, adding,that if at the end of that time they gave rebels and be treated as trouble,they would any without attacked more Eventuallythey ceremony.

I had again in August Thangal was kept well in hand, but he required to be managed with During the Maharajah'sincreasing great firmness. Jubraj who had already told that he Singh, but he was great deal of delay an interview though he appeared quite well,. He had suffered from a sore foot which prevented his coming to Jeeree Ghat to meet me and he could not forgiveBularam Singh for having taken his place. I heard afterwards that,directlymy decision had been communicated to the Durbar, he had volunteered to When in. I firmly declined, meet me, He then saying that I would wait till he recovered.

Rakpa and another princemet me on behalf of the Jubraj. I neared As the capital, crowd vast to out a came the numbers meet increasingat every step,and me, I. Old Thangal, when I met him, spoke very kindly on the subject, saying, It is sad to safe you return alone, and we know what it must be to you. The question is far more Any relaxation important than it seems. Indeed, to a native chief,etiquette graver I. English patterns, had been the Maharajah, the workmanship creditable,and in that of the of.

Bombay to learn to make time the Maharajah was art at one pottery, and about anxious it, but the correspondence with the School of Art conducted in so was leisurelya their side,extending over manner on nearly a year, I. I Manipur, which brought home with me, the only existing specimens of an art that died out in its infancy. They, were probablyowing to their dependent position , such ill-mannered and not an disagreeableset as their co-religionists of Cachar, and were generally The headman of the sect quiet and inoffensive. Unfortunately,I found that great soreness still prevailedin Manipur on of the account of the Kongal case, and I was non-settlement stantly conon.

I had When to see a day to spare, I went my experimentalgarden and fir wood, at Kang-joop-. Knowing I wanted in my friend to cheer me he loneliness, a had very partment kindly acceptedthe permission of his deto accompany tour through the on me a hills to the north-east of Manipur. No European all more was deservedlypopular of late years among classes in Manipur, where orice or he had visited me twice I felt his kindness before.

On the 2nd of December, started on a preliminarytour round the west and we south of the valley, visitingthe Logtak lake,with its floatingislands, its island-hill of Thanga, with its gardens and place of exile,and largefishing orange establishment. When I first arrived in Manipur, prise were a rarity. Now, owing to the enteroranges of the Maharajah in planting trees, they were able to gather and here we were fairlycommon, all soils is capriciousand them. Naga Hills, meeting the Chief Commissioner, Mr. Elliott,at the Mao, and returningwith him to Manipur, where usual visits were exchanged.

After a day or two's and I set out for Cachar halt,the Chief C! A short time before reaching the of Kala summit Naga, a pretty little incident I have of never forgotten.

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Some occurred, which coolies were toilingup the steep ascent with my Kukis with two met their loads, when us young smilingfaces as if something had given them great pleasure. They immediately made two of the men their loads, and took them with me put down up We. They all returned in a suspiciously short space of time,justat nightfall, Dun having astonished every one by his marching He described the villagersas a surly, powers. They crowded showed them much watches, we our pleased when by. The villagecontained no skulls,and our friends told us that they obeyed orders and killed no We one.

He seemed quite pleasedto see his old host. The Metomi people were a strange set, quite naked, except for a cloth in cold weather. They wear their hair young. They those of the Abors and Kasias, but were Assam.

We escort a feet to the Lainer, which forded, the water we the remains of a susbeing knee deep ; there were pension then We bridgefor use in the rainy season. Soon after a long line peoplewere of men appeared,each carrying a small quantityof rice, and the heads of the villagecame forward, presentingus with fowls,and heaped up the rice in then walked We front of me. Metomi into our then turned and was. I wanted to escape to run vocabulary of the Metomi language the next us, set.

Every one search for water, so the Manipuris went supperless and I had brought a supply,which Dun to bed. Early next morning we started up the of our hill again,leaving the bulk party a mile or in advance of our two halting place,to search for marched.

On Febuary 7th, we marched long,passingthrough lovelyscenery, a series of deep valleysand ravines and high hills,with a splendid view the valley of Thetzir and down Lainer, and eastern beyond, the junction of the latter with its northconfluent,we finally encamped close to a very Next. February 9th, we but severe march interesting first crossed a ridge among. After reaching the summit, we made a gradual descent along an exceedinglysteep hillside, where.

We a cross and constructed watercourses skilfully passed many much terrace indeed,the Somrah cultivation, villages I have ever have the finest system of irrigation seen, side hilland the long parallelline of watercourses on a Somrah. On our height of passing way, in along a lovelyridge,covered with rhododendrons GuachsD,. Every one ought to be taught often heard to reduce a dislocation ; I had practically we.

Manipur, and be treated by my native and preferredgoing to but he objected, I gave. On the evening of the 12th, one brought to me, who had dislocated had. I never the the hardy fellows do this before, and it shows in making cold felt, influence of a piercing wind I have. Next day, I inspected the I had set up, and found them intact, boundary pillars not a was proof that the settlement satisfactory to either Manipur or Burmah. He rejoinedme on Thus ended of the hardest,but, at one.

Elliott During. Again, he, and this weakened release, Affairs, as Aya Pooiel,"i. Minister for Burmese ". Kongal and insisted on the authors being punished. Maharajah's ill health also gave me anxiety,as he and he once no was longer the active man was, and under more Thangal's was daily fallingmore our.

I spoke very gravely, that it was serious business, a very. I then wrote to the Maharajah asking him to appoint Bularam Singh to aid me in the investigation, also reporting ThangaFs conduct, and me. Thinking carefullyover the I wrote to the matter, Maharajah on May 26th, requestinghim to replaceThangal in the Aya PooielSingh, suggesting Bularam ship by another officer, in charge I did not consider it safe to leave him as but.

Before leaving,I day at Thobal. I accepted the apology speaking very ments, quite reciprocatinghis friendly sentipersonally, but told him that,having acted in the way he did, I could not trust him as Aya Pooiel. Before reaching Manipur, I heard through some the most Kukis convincing proofs that the Mombee the raid, and at Thangal people had committed Major's instigation. I obtained all the necessary details later on, but the Burmese war prevented my undertaking an expedition for the release of some and Burmese captiveswho had been carried away sold,though I accomplishedit later on.

Here also I had most unpleasantevidence of the existence of a plant that has the smell of decomposed flesh. Maharajah, callingto mind letter respectingthe Aya Pooielship, and again my The next requesting ThangaFs removal. Acting Chief was intending to march through Manipur on to the Naga Hills,I stayed with him, and way all left Shillong together on November 4th. I wrote at once to the prisonerat Kendat. Phoongyee, asking him to use his influence to him, saying that I was in a positionto march aid in.

Buckstuhl had been protectedby the Kendat Woon, and four others by the Mengin Woon. He said the Chindwin with dacoits,i,e.