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lage six miles on our route, and to which the Beren people had 

 agreed to take our traps and the little grain we had. The road was 

 good the whole way, with only one or two hills. We encamped on a 

 flat piece of ground near a well below Balaka, which is always built 

 near villages for the cattle to drink out of. The chief of Ungolo 

 came in with eggs, &c. and said his young men had joined Ikkaree in 

 the incursions into the Cachar Hills ; that they were forced to go, but 

 should not do so again. The term f youths' is applied to all able bodied 

 villagers. I deemed it needless to bind the smaller chiefs, who stood 

 at the beck of the greater ones, to oaths they could not keep. The 

 chief of Jykama (or as it is written in Captain Pemberton's map of the 

 North-east frontier, Yueekhe) sent in a person of his village to know 

 whether his coming in would cause the loss of his life ; I assured him 

 that we were most desirous for peace, but that his not coming in 

 would be a sign of his enmity, and that in that case I should attack 

 his village ; the chief departed quite satisfied. 



March 2d. I was unable to move for want of coolies. I this day 

 got intelligence of Doorgaram Subadar and of the levy having come to 

 Beren according to order, with forty Kookees out of one hundred who 

 had arrived at Semker. The chief of Umponglo came in, and said 

 Impuisjee, the greatest chief of the Angamees, who had promised to 

 meet me, had gone to Umbolo, or Sirchong, to ask advice of the chief 

 of that village regarding a meeting with me. This chief is his nephew ; 

 he promised to give us grain as we passed his village, he also said the 

 children of his village had gone in Ikkaree's train to the Hills, but that 

 they would not do so again. Ikkaree is the second chief of the Anga- 

 mees, and the principal leader in the predatory attacks on the Cachar 

 Nagas ; he was captured by Doorgaram Subadar in one of his incur- 

 sions to Goomegogoo, but escaped, as he said himself, by the neglect of 

 a burkundaz. Our grain being all expended, and finding none com- 

 ing forth from the villagers, I placed the chief of Balaka in arrest, to 

 induce them to exert themselves for us, but my experiment had a 

 very opposite effect, for they all fled from the village and left their 

 chief to his fate. On his taking an oath to bring coolies and grain, if 

 I let him go, I released him, which was another kind of experiment, 

 and proved something like letting go a newly-caught bird, for we 

 never saw him again. Doorgaram Subadar came up to-day. 



On the 3d March I was obliged to divide the party, as it was 

 necessary to increase our rate of going onwards, or to return, for 

 every moment reduced our supply of grain. I therefore left the Shan 

 and levy detachments under Doorgaram, with instructions to make 

 the best of his way after me, or otherwise to act according to cir- 



