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great "Thangliana." A friend asked Mm what he thought of
So-and-So, the reply being : "I don't know what sort of man he is,
all I know is, that he cannot be a sahib to live as he does."

CAREY, BERTRAM S. and BL JSf. TUCK. " The Chin hills: A History of the
People, their Customs and Manners, and our Dealings with them,
and a Gazetteer of their Country." Rangoon, 1896.

A model of what such a book should be. The illustrations are
particularly good. The Lushais and Thados are only touched.
Much of the matter referring to the Haka and Klang-Klang Chins is
applicable to the Lakhers.

LORRAIN, HERBERT J., and FRED W. SAVIDGE. " Grammar and
Dictionary of the Lushai Language." Shillong, 1898.

A very complete and accurate work. Unfortunately the standard
system of transliteration has not been entirely adhered to.

SOFPITT, C. A. "A short account of the "Kuki-Lushai tribes on the
North-East Frontier Districts : Cachar, Sylhet, Naga Hills, <fec., and
the North Cachar Hills. Shillong, 1887.

I believe this is a useful accurate work, but have not been able to
obtain it.

SNEYD-HUTCHINSCXN, E. " Gazetteer of the Chittagong Hill Tracts."

As regards Lushais there is not much of value, as they are beyond
the scope of the work, but few being found in the Hill Tracts.

Besides the above there are notes in the Census Reports of 1891 and
1901, various military publications and gazetteers by Mr. A. W. Davis,
I.C.S., and Mr, B. C. Allen, I.C.S., all of which contain a certain amount
of useful information, but do not pretend to be more than notes giving
succinctly the knowledge then obtained of what was then practically new
ground. Colonel Woodthorpe's account of the Silchar columns' march to
Champhai, though not professing to be an account of the people, is
interesting reading. Round Champhai I met several men who had been
there when the column arrived, and they all remember the little sa»hib
who drew pictures; and would sit long looking at the pictures in his book
and chatting to each other of the good old days.

[NOTES.—On p. 6 of the present work the Author refers to a passage in
Lewin's Hill Tracts of Ghittagong and tlw Dwellers therein, in which is cited an
account of (c the Cucis or inhabitants of the Tipperah Mountains written by
J. Rennel, Chief Engineer of Bengal in 1800." In reading through the proofs
of the present work, it occurred to me that it would be important to discover
whether the " J. Rennel" referred to by Lewin was or was not the famous
Major James Rennell, Surveyer-General of Bengal, who is so often described
as "the Father of Modern Geography." Major Rennell with his wife (n6e
Jane Thackeray—a great aunt of the novelist W. M. Thackeray) left Bengal
in March, 1777, and reached England in February 1778. He died on March 29,
1830. It seemed to me possible that the great Rennell might have obtained
the information about the Kukis during his period of service in East Bengal,
and that he might have published a memoir on the subject in 1800.
Mr. W, Foster of the Record Department of the India Office very kindly
informed me that no such a memoir could be traced at Whitehall, and drew