JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



Extracts from the Journal of an Expedition into the Naga Hills on the 

 Assam Frontier. By Lieut. Grange, Assistant Political Agent, 

 undertaken by order of Government in the beginning of 1840, (taken 

 by permission from tJie records of the Political Secretariat under the 

 Government of India. J 



Leaving Nowgong, agreeably to instructions, on the 3rd of December 

 1839, I proceeded to Dhoboka, which I reached on the 5th of the same 

 month. The country to that point being well known, requires no fur- 

 ther description. 



I left Dhoboka on the 6th of December, at about 7 a.m., and arrived 

 at Oopur Jumonah, at about 1 1 o'clock. First crossing the Jumonah 

 river about half a mile above the Dhoboka village, we entered Tularam 

 Senaputtee's boundary line. The route lay through a forest, called 

 Rungaghora, from whence most of the villages on the banks of the Ju- 

 monah procure their fuel. There has been an attempt at a clearance 

 in the forest, but much difficulty is experienced by the Ryots, from the 

 great number of wild animals which infest this part of the country ; viz. 

 elephants, tigers, rhinoceroses, buffaloes, and hogs. The path the whole 

 way is tolerably good. Oopur Jumonah is a hamlet of about twenty or 

 thirty houses, scattered along the banks of the Jumonah river ; it is fast 

 decreasing in number, in consequence of the people having suffered 

 much from the destruction of their crops by the wild animals in the 

 neighbourhood. 



1th December. — Marching at about 7 a.m., I reached the Cacharee 

 village of Nermolea, the distance being about ten miles. One hour's 

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