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The Chin Hills: a history of the people, our dealings with them, their customs and manners, and a gazetteer of their country

Bertram Sausmarez Carey · 1896 · Scanned text

145,159 words · about 10 h 10 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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Author
Bertram Sausmarez Carey
Language
English
Published
1896
Length
145,159 words · about 10 h 10 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter under 1 min
  2. Chapter XXIV about 1 min
  3. Preface about 10 h 9 min
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Front matter

mPhotoetching. Survey of India Offices, Calcutta, November 1895. . 18. TYPE OF HAKA CHIN. THE CHIN HILLS: A History ofthe People, our dealings with them, their Customs and Manners, and a Gazetteer of their Country, BY BERTRAM S. CAREY, c.i.e., Assistant Commissioner. Burma, and Political Officer. Chin HiUs, AND H. N. TUCK, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Burma, and Assfstant Political Officer, Chin Hills. VOLUME I. RANGOON: PRINTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRINTING, BURMA. 1896. CONTENTS. Page. Preface 1

The arms of the Chins and the local manufacture of gunpowder and bullets 220

Chapter XXIV

Raids and method of warfare LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS. Page. i. haka cooty carrying load ... ... ... ... 166 2. Southern women weaving ... ... ... ... 171 3. Lalwe, the Klangklang Chief ... ... ... ... 51 4. Shwe Hlyen and Lyen Mo, Haka Chiefs ... ... ... 34 5. Carved entrance to compound, South Chin Hills ... ... 179 6. Grain-pounding ... ... ... ... ... 210 7. Powder horns ... ... ... ... ... 224 8. Arms ... ... ... ... ... 230 9. Drinking zu ... ... ... ... ... 187 10. Chin goat ... ... ... ... ... i0 11. Chin house, Haka ... ... ... ... ... 178 12. Mithun ... ... ... ... ... 180 13. Typical view of Chinland ... ... ... ... 5 14. Haka women ... ... ... ... ... 165 15. Bamboo village, Lushai border ... ... ... 54 16. Carved memorial post, Falam ... ... ... ... 194 17. (a) Falam village ... ... ... ... ... 32 17.

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