The following clans are said not to be descended from Thado, but to have emerged from the earth after the Thimzing:--Kulho, Shongte, Kullon, Thangneo, Hanngeng, Henngar, and Thanchhing. They are now to all intents and purposes Thados, most of them having even adopted the Sakhua, or domestic sacrificial rites, of whichever family of the Thado clan they have attached themselves to. Shongte and his younger brother Kullon emerged from the Khulpi, which is the Thado equivalent of the Lushai Chhinglung. Kulho, Thangneo, and Hanngeng were sons of Shongte, the two latter being by a different mother to the first. Henngar was Kulho's son. Kulho celebrated the Chong festival, and invited his half-brothers, but Thangneo refused to come, so Kulho disowned him, which angered Thangneo, so that he proposed to Hanngeng that they should kill Kulho, but Hanngeng refused, saying that the removal of Kulho would make Thangneo head of the family, but would in no way benefit him. This ancient quarrel is sometimes revived even now, and blows are exchanged when representatives of Kulho and Thangneo meet round the zu-pot. The houses of the Thados generally resemble those of the Lushais, but are less regular in their interior arrangements, a big house sometimes having two or three hearths irregularly placed. Zawlbuks are not built, the young men sleeping in the houses of well-to-do people. The houses of the chiefs are surrounded by palisading enclosing a courtyard, along one side of which there is often a platform, which reminds one very much of the Chin houses, and is one of the many trifles tending to confirm the tradition of the southern origin of the clan. The following extracts from Lieut. Stewart's notes on Northern Cachar, written in 1855, show us the Thados as he knew them:-- "Each of the four clans is divided into separate and independent Rajahlics, of greater or less power and numbers, consisting of one or more villages, each of which is presided over by a hereditary chief or Rajah, whose power is supreme, and who has a civil list as long, in proportion to the means of his subjects, as that possessed by any other despot in the world. All these Rajahs are supposed to have sprung from the same stock, which it is believed originally had connection with the gods themselves. Their persons are, therefore, looked upon with the greatest respect and almost superstitious veneration, and their commands are in every case law.