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Simla, July 18.-The United Ser- vice Institution has reopened its series of lectures at the first of which, held in the Gaiety Theatre,

A FINE ASSORTMENT OF HIGH General Sir Alexander Wadrop pre-CLASS BRITISH METAL WARE sided,

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The lecturer was Dr. Hutton, dis- tinguished not only for his work in the Assam Civil Service but as a scientist and antropologist.

Speaking on "A head hunter's į etc., etc. frontier" Dr. Hutton described the people living around the south bank of the Brahmaputra and in the Eastern regions of Assam towards

the borders of Burma,

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The speaker likened their culture | TERMS ~CiÐH ON DELIVERY. to those found in Borneo and New

ex- Guinea. The languages are tremely polyglot and there are so many dialects that sometimes in village, one side of the street is unable to understand the other. The languages spoken by the Nagne, especially, are most difficult to

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? A quite different words or roots. clever linguist would take eighteer || months at least to learn the langu

age.

These people's ideas of theology appear to be coloured by the fact that they have no words whitever to express the abstract, so that one' en only presume that, for them, the abstract is non-existent. Their idea is that life is perpetual and flows from the dead body as a liquid might into the ground which it fertilises.

Suppose crops should fail and cattle dio of pestilence, it would be aserihod to a lack of life, the next village would be raided for dead bodies whose souls would fertilise the ground producing com to be eaten by beam and humans, so that life would again continue to flow on.

Preserving the Dead.

Mrst of the tribes locate the moul

in the head, hence the practice of

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"head hunting." Skulls of the TERMS-CANH ON DELIVERY. dead are entombed in cists and, in the care

of chiefs, the skulls are sometimes painted with the pat- terns with which the face was tat- tooed in life, and the eye sockets Glled in with (probably) fish seales and looking glanak. A pith nosa is added to the akull.

Viltages are usually situated on the summit of a hill with cometerica on either side of the road up to them wherein the dead of the village

are laid out to rot

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shield with which he was a armed.

All cried "Why did you not try to kill it to which he replied it is my cousin" It is a common.

In other villages the dead are belief that souls enter other bodies smoke-dried and hang up in a liv: during sleep, and it has been known ing room until the next sowing that, when a leopard is shot, the season, when they are broken up

to let their soul into the crop.

and

Other Interesting Features.

man who swears his soul was in that Sone villages, boast men who are leopard dien. so holy that they cannot tread upon the ground and are carried in ei kind of open litter to attend meet-}| ings. Others are so democratio that there appears to be no organisation these at all.

Village Customs.

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people to tell truth ia to make them wear

dath the lives

When ponce has reigned for some time in the village they have been a known to assert that young men village as there is a comoti were getting slack and needed war belief that anyone_swearing falsely. So war was declared without the

necessity of any better pretext than forfeits the lives of the villagern, that mentioned:

and a large percentage of the village It is not uncommon for a village has been known to die within a to prefer war to peace. Diplomacy year after the swearing of a false for them meaan teachery, so that [eath,

the promise of peace merely menos Dr. Hutton related how he he. that their fortification must be tually caught out a village in this more strongly guarded against manner and how many of the vit trenchery than when war is opoily lagers did die within a jedr. · Ho declared.

[attributed it to fright and a guilty One was somewhat reminded of conscience. Witches are. à source of Buddhism when told the story of a great trouble, especially whers they tiger being hated near the lee plead guilty, belum afraid of losing turer's dwelling. I walked past their fame if they do nót, one young Naga warrior who did not even step aside to let it pass, nor-attempted-to-use-his-spear-of-

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One wenn was brought to Dr. Hutton who bad picked up a baby

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