_Alphabet._--Shyán or Ahom. _Physical Appearance._--Body long, legs short, complexion tawny. JILI. _Locality._--The Burmese side of the Patkoe range. Conterminous with the Singpho, by whom they have been nearly extinguished. _Language._--Seven-tenths of the Jili vocabulary is Singpho. MISHIMI. _Locality._--North-east extremity of Assam. Conterminous with the Khamti on the south, and the Abors on the west. Mountaineers. Tibet on the north. _Mishimi Tribes._--The Chool Kutta=crop-haired, the Meahu, the Tairi, or Digaru. According to Brown, the Maí Mishimi, the Taron Mishimi, and the Maiye or Meme Mishimi. _Probable Population._--Four hundred and sixty. _Physical Appearance._--Stature short. Limbs small, but active, and well-knit. The Mishimi country produces, and the Mishimi collect, a poison called the Bikh Mishimi. This is used both for the purposes of hunting and of war. So poisonous is it that a single wound is said to kill an elephant. The flesh, however, of the animal so killed is eaten with impunity. BOR ABORS. _Locality._--The loftiest portion of the mountains to the north of Assam. ABORS. _Locality._--The lower range of the mountains inhabited by the Bor Abors. MIRI. _Locality._--The foot of the Abor and Bor Abor range. Speaking generally, the Bor Abors, Abors, and Miri are conterminous with the Khamti, and Mishimi on the north-east. DUFLA. _Locality._--South-west of the Abors, on the same mountain range. No less than one hundred and eighty petty chiefs are said to rule over the numerous disunited Dufla tribes of the Char Dwán; and this is only one of their localities. AKA. _Locality._--The south-western prolongation of the range inhabited by the Abors and Dufla. Conterminous with the latter. _Language._--Half the words in an Aka and Abor vocabulary are alike. MUTTUCK. _Locality._--North-east Assam, south of the Burramputer. Conterminous with the Singhu, Khamti, and Miri. _Synonym._--Muamaria, or Moa Mareya. _Religion._--Imperfect Brahmanism. The Muttuck persecution is one of the most important facts in the history of Assam. Prior to the Ahom invasion, said to have taken place 1224, A. D., the Muttucks had been converted to Hinduism; but to a form of it which denied the divinity of Durga, and would not admit the worship of her image. A violent persecution on this account, between A.D. 1714 and 1744, brought about a resistance which did much to weaken and disorganise the Assam empire. GARO. _Locality._--The Garo hills, at the south-western entrance of the valley of Assam. No tribe hitherto mentioned is of the ethnographical importance of the Garo. If we call them _Indian_, they are the most northern tribe that has been described as having _Negro_ elements in their physiognomy.