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usually dies ultimately of exhaustion. Villages have been known to be 
decimated by this scourge. Venereal ailments are common ; the moral 
code of their early years tends largely to their propagation. They admit 
a long acquaintance with gonorrhoea but insist that syphilis is an accom¬ 
paniment of the British government. Since however they are of the 
same opinion as regards cholera, which is known to have prevailed among 
them long before the advent of the British, they may be mistaken in this 
respect also. Specific eruptions and other secondary manifestations are, it 
must be admitted however, more common in the villages which come 
most in contact with sepoys, and the ravages they commit are such as 
would be expected in a race newly inoculated with the virus. 
— NOTE. — 
The Angami Nagas have already been described by the following 
authors; — Butler; (son of the officer whose work is referred to in 
foot-notes) Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1875. Woodthorpe ; Jour. 
Anth. Inst. GK Brit. 6^ Ir. vol. XI. They have also been incidentally 
referred to in the latter periodical by Peal : — vol. Ill; Godwin 
Austen ; — vol. IV; and Watt ; — vol. XVI. 
These publications were not accessible at the time the notes which 
constitute the paper were being arranged. 
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