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[No. 1, 
S. E. Peal — Visit to the Naga Hills. 
combined action on their part. What we have most to fear is their incredible 
ignorance : hemmed in and stationary themselves, they cannot comprehend 
our having other troops than what they see at Dibrogarh, and laugh to scorn 
any idea of our being able to cope with them. Like an enraged child with 
a knife, they may inflict some severe cuts before the knife is taken from 
them. 
The question of population of course occupied our attention, and is one 
difficult of solution. This tribe consists of four villages, and the mean of 
several Asamese and Naga estimates of the number of houses was as 
follows : 
Banpara, . 
Longhong, 
Uhii, 
Nokrong, . 
300 houses. 
200 
350 
50 
Or a total for the tribe of 900 houses. 
I am inclined, however, to think it far above the truth, and that 600 
houses is nearer the mark, and that the able-bodied men are about 1,000 to 
1,200, or two to a house. 
The Joboka Niigas have five villages, i. e. Joboka, Kamlung, Bor U'tii, 
Ham U'td, and Longting, and an Asamese estimate gives the following 
numbers : — 
Joboka, 500 
Kamlung, 400 
Bor. U’td, 400 
Hdru ITtd, 300 
Longting, 200 
Total 1800 houses. 
This also, I think, is over-estimated, and 1000 to 1,200 will be nearer 
the truth. This would give, say 2,000 able-bodied men. 
The Miltons have four villages, i. e., Bor Muton, Huru Mutons, Kulun 
Mutons, and Naugaon, (I may add that it was called ‘new village’ at least 
sixty years ago). Whether these are really separate tribes or simply different 
villages of one, I cannot say. A Rajah is at each, but they never go to war 
with one another, but fight on the contrary together, I believe, against any 
enemy. Their ak also is the same. 
Of the Bor Duarias, Pan! Duarias, and Namsangias, I cannot give 
an estimate, but 1 think that they have not less than 1000 to 2000 houses, 
each tribe. 
