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including Tibetian oil-paintings of Buddhist deities, yet does 

 he look down upon books. The offers of opening a school in their 

 villages, have repeatedly been made to Tagi, but as often politely 

 refused. Tagi dreads the approach of the schoolmaster to his hills, 

 for he knows, that with the schoolmaster there would come a different 

 code of morals and ethics ; and he fears, that the English will succeed 

 the schoolmaster, and thus put an end to Tagi, and the selfish aims 

 of the Angka people, as regards the Mijis and the inhabitants of the 

 Balipara Mehal. 



ALPHABET. 



Showing the Orthoepy of the Dialects spoken hy the Hill-trioes of 



Assam. 

 a. =: Father, 

 o. = all. 

 a. = ever. 



e. = may. 



i. = be. 









o. = no. 









6. — deux, Er. ; or bose, Ger. 







u. = too. 









ii. = tw, Er., or iiber, 



Ger. 







f. or ph. = Father, or 



1 Philosojjhy. 







g, = go and give. 

 h. = house. 









k. = cat. 









s. = so. 









z. = zeal. 









th. = th&lev in German. 







ch. = church. 









j. =joy- 



x. = hoch, Scotch, or gleich, German. 





v. == very. 



.English. 





Hrusso or 



Angha. 



one, 

 two, 



... 



a. 



'kse. 





three, 



... ... 



'tse. 





