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TITLE: A Sketch of Assam
SUB TITLE: With some account of the Hill tribes. By an officer in the Hon. East India Company's Bengal Native Infantry in Civil Employ. With illustrations from sketches by the author
AUTHOR: Major John Butler
PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder and Co.
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1847
NO.OF PAGES: viii + 220 pages with 16 [of 17] plates (15 hand-coloured lithographs) 4 wood engravings and 1 folding map
BINDING: Leather bound stamped in blind, and with a gilt block illustration of a hunting scene on upper board
SIZE: 21.5 x 14.6 cms
LIST OF PLATES:-
1. Frontispece. Garrow Warrior.
2. Gowahatty.
3. Omanund Island opposite Gowahatty.
4. (1) Mangoe Fly (2) Queen (or Arrindy) Silkworm of Assam (3) Long Horned Beetle.
5. (1) Vampire of Fox Bat (2) Tiger Beetle of Assam (3) Hercules Beetle of Assam.
6. (1-2) Leaf Insect of Assam (male & female) (3) Saiknah Caterpillar (butterfly).
7.Buffalo Heads in Assam.
8. Buffalo shooting in Assam.
9. Singphoo Hat, Helmet, Cross-Bow, Quiver, and Arrows.
10. An Assamese Gentleman / A Meree Woman.
11. Nagas.
12. Angamee Naga Warrior.
13. Naga Mode of Disposing of the Dead ona Bier or Platform.
14. A Booteah Servant.
15. Cheingtanjing, Booteah Rajah / Gelae, Booteah Rajah.
16. Cheegee Kuppachor Akha, brother of the Tagee Rajah / Kuppachor Akha, Tagee Rajah.
17. A Dufflah / A Dufflah Chief's Widow / A DufflahChief.
Butler was a major in the East India Company's 55th Bengal Native Infantry, and served as the Principal Assistant to the Governor General on the North East Frontier of Assam. This is Butler's first book on Assam.
Reference: Abbey Travel 471
b)
TITLE: Travels and Adventures in the Province of Assam, during a Residence of Fourteen Years
AUTHOR: Major John Butler
PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder and Co.
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1855
NO.OF PAGES: ix + 268 includingtinted lithographic frontispiece and 7 other similar plates, large folding route map with route marked in red, folding lithographed plan of the Hill Fort Konomah in the Naga Hills
BINDING: Leather bound with decorative gilted spine with 5 raised bands
SIZE: 22.5 x 15 x 2.2 cm
A sequel to A Sketch of Assam, Butler describes "the habits, customs, and manners of the remaining wild tribes of the hills, viz., Anghamee Nagahs, Kookies, Meekirs, and Rengma Nagahs, with whom a lengthened residence rendered him intimately acquainted." (Preface)
The book also illustrates the life of an officer in the civil employ in Assam, and concludes with a statistical account of the amount and mode of realizing the revenue , and the physical and moral condition of the people of the district of Now-Gong.
Reference: Abbey Travel 471
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