1872.] H. Blochmann — Koch Bihar and A's'.m. 75 
At every station the road was intersected by nalahs ; in fact they are so 
numerous, that I cannot mention each singly. 
On the l(5th Sha’ban, [17th March, 1662] the Nawab entered Ghargaon. 
He crossed the Dik’ho, and went eastward, and occupied the Kajah’s 
palace. 
The next day many guns were recovered from the tanks into which the 
Rajah had thrown them before his flight ; 82 elephants, and nearly three 
lacs of rupees in gold and silver, were also found. The number of guns which 
were captured, from the starting of the expedition till the return, was 675, 
among them a large iron gun ) the halls of which weighed 
3 mans; 1343 zamburaks ; 1200 ramehangis ; and 6570 matchlocks; 340 
mans of powder ; 1960 boxes with powder, in each box about 2 or 2 1 mans of 
powder ; 7828 shields ; a large quantity of saltpetre, iron, sulphur, and lead ; 
1000 and odd ships, many of which accommodated 80, 70, and 60 sailors. 
Unfortunately 123 bachhari ships, like which no other existed in the dock- 
yards at Ghargaon, were burned, some Asamese having set fire to 
the chhappars under which they were kept. About 173 store houses for 
rice were discovered, over which matchlockmen were placed as guards, each 
of the houses containing from ten to one thousand mans of rice. These stores 
proved very useful. 
VI. 
On A'sam and its Inhabitants.* 
A'sam is a wild and inaccessible country, cultivated only along the 
Brahmaputra, which flows through it from east to west. From Gawahatti 
to Sadiah (<*j the distance is about 200 kos. The breadth from the hills, 
inhabited by the Miris, Michmis [Mishmis], Duflahs, and Landahs,t up to the 
“ collects cattle,” and Mr. Foster tells me that according to the legends the Bor 
M was expressly constructed to bring the Rajah’s milk from the feeding grounds to 
Ghargaon. 
The Nawfib then marches along the Bor Al, a magnificent road, to Mmdilng, 
for which the ‘A'lamijtmdmah (p 719) has ‘ Lamdang, and the Fathiyah, ‘Ramdiing. 
The Kamdang Rivor flows into the Dik’ho, N. N. W. of Ghargaon. lho distance of 
Namdang from the Bansgark of Ghargaon is about ten miles. At the place where 
the Bor Al entors the Bansgarh, there is still a ruined fortified gateway, called the 
Singh Duar,’ from which the Dik’ho is about four miles distant. 
* The greater part of this chapter is given in the ’Alamgirnamah, from which it 
was translated into English by Mr. H. Yansittart in the Asiatic Researches, Yol. II, 
P. 171. But as his proper names are mostly wrong, I give here a full translation of 
the chapter as given in the more complete Fathiyah i ’ Ibriyah . 
t All MSS. havo clearly landali. If the word is correct, it would refor to a tribe 
Of Aborigines not mentioned in our Ethnological works. Col. Dalton, to whom I 
