[11] "The influence exercised by Colonel McCulloch as a political agent at Manipur was most beneficial," wrote the Times, April 1, 1891, "and since his time no one has been more successful than Colonel Johnstone, who took charge in 1877, and rendered conspicuous service by raising the siege of Kohima by the Nagas in 1879."--Ed. [12] As Assist-sup. of the tributary Mehals, Sir James (then Lieutenant) Johnstone endowed schools at Keonjhur and presented the Government with some land he had bought for the purpose. When the Rajah, during whose minority he had managed the affairs of Keonjhur as political officer, came of age, the agency was abolished for economy.--Ed. [13] I rewarded Kurum, and he distinguished himself later on. [14] The name means beautiful garden.--Ed. [15] Tannah means outpost.--Ed. [16] Probably a corruption of Khatyra. [17] I.e. Unclean. [18] Mentioned frequently later on. In August, 1891, he was a fugitive from the British Government, hiding himself on the Chinese frontier.--Ed. [19] Here a British native regiment was stationed, after Sir J. Johnstone's retirement, but some time before the troubles of 1891.--Ed. [20] Quoted by kind permission of editor from my article in Nineteenth Century. [21] Quoted by kind permission of editor from my article in Nineteenth Century. [22] It will be seen later on that this rumour was not correct.--Ed. [23] A different place from Konoma.--Ed. [24] A Sikh.--Ed. [25] The Jubraj, who afterwards reigned as the Maharajah Soor Chandra Singh, died in exile; Kotwal Koireng and Thangal Major were hanged in August, 1891, by order of the sentence passed upon them for resisting the British Government.--Ed. [26] In 1891, the Jubraj, then the ex-Maharajah, brought forward this fact in his appeal to the British Government, as a reason for his restoration.--Ed. [27] The savage mode in which the Nagas conduct their warfare is vividly described by a correspondent of the Englishman writing from Cachar, January 28, 1880, after a raid on the Baladhun Tea Gardens by a band of the same tribe as those of Konoma. He ends with "The whole was a horribly sickening scene, and a complete wreck; and such surely as none but the veriest of devils in human form could have perpetrated."--Ed.