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below this, the coal was brittle, and broke into many small pieces. 

 I had nothing but a Naga spear with me, so could not reach the solid 

 coal. I told the Ramsah Gaon Boorah who was with me, to send me 

 some good specimens, and I would reward him. The lime was some 

 few miles below the falls, and too far away for me to visit to-day. I 

 was told by some Meekirs that a small quantity lay in store, or rather 

 had been in store there, but the house in which it was stored, having 

 been burnt down, the lime lay exposed, and became one hard mass and 

 spoilt. Cotton traders from Mohung Ramsah above are here obliged 

 to change boats ; the cotton is carried over the small hills below the 

 rapids, and there put into other boats. Thunder storm and rain all 

 night. 



22c? February. — Returned to Ramsah to await the Seenaputti's 

 arrival. Ramsah is a small village on the north bank of the Jummoo- 

 na with about twenty houses, population Ahoms and Cacharees. Here 

 I met five Cossiyahs, they had come from Amoepoonjee, and had brought 

 with them daws, kodals, and a few brass utensils, which they barter 

 with the Nagas, Meekirs and Cacharees. I thought the articles very 

 cheap, considering the distance they bring them from. Daws four annas, 

 and kodalees seven and eight annas ; they tell me some of their people 

 come over yearly to trade and barter with these Nagas (Rengmas,) Mee- 

 kirs and Cacharees. 



23c? February. — Waited till 12 a. m. for Tularam Seenaputti, but he 

 not arriving, I left a message for him to follow me to Dholung, and 

 then started for that village ; drizzling rain the whole day. Path very 

 wet. 



24tk February. — Tularam Seenaputti arrived last evening, and came 

 to-day to pay his respects. Informed him of the frequent disturbances 

 created among the Nagas by some of his Cacharee ryots, residing at 

 and near Semkur, and requested he would have a stop put to such pro- 

 ceedings. I at the same time told him, that I had given orders to the 

 Maun subadar to seize all such parties and to send them down to 

 Golaghat, when they would be dealt with as my superiors would direct, 

 that these aggressions were illegal, and if he did not put a stop to them, 

 that he would be answerable for these aggressions of his ryots. On 

 this he replied, that he was as anxious as myself to put a stop to such 



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