Garrow warrior to face Title. Map of Assam to face page 1 View of Gowahatty 5 Omanund Island 6 Queen silkworm, &c. 14 Vampire, or fox bat, &c. 18 Leaf insects 19 Assamese plough 26 Buffalo heads to face page 27 Buffalo shooting 28 Assamese harrow 37 Singphoo bow and arrows, and helmet to face page 59 Abor cane helmets 112 Mishmee dog-skin caps 117 Assamese gentleman, and Meree woman to face page 134 Nagas 149 Angamee Naga warrior 159 Naga mode of disposing of the dead 163 Booteah servant 189 Booteah Rajahs 195 Kuppah Choor Akhas 207 Dufflahs 213 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Appointed second in command of the Assam Light Infantry--Journey to Assam, Goalparah, and Gowahatty--Trip to Seebsaugur in a canoe--Boats and dangers--Seebsaugur and Saikwah described--The tribes--An Assam cottage--Unwelcome intruder--Climate of Assam page 1 CHAPTER II. Travels and residence in North-Western Assam--Description of Burpetah in the rains--Vampire, or fox bats--Leaf insect--Seclusion of villages in the jungles--Country abounds with wild animals--Number of deaths, and damage done to crops--Native mode of killing a tiger--Conflagrations of jungles--Danger therefrom to travellers--Cultivation of high and low lands--Number of crops--Primitive mode of husbandry--Irrigation by cacharies--Country inundated--Population and condition of the people--Law on slavery 16 CHAPTER III. Forests and grass jungle--Tigers, elephants, buffaloes, rhinosceroses, pigs and deer--Field sports by Europeans--Native practice of destroying animals with poisoned arrows--Effects of poison--Wild elephants caught with a noose in Assam--Secured in a Kheddah or enclosure at Chittagong--Net revenue of Assam--Disbursements--Industry--Opium--Slavery--Conclusion 27 ACCOUNT OF ASSAMESE TRIBES.