This expedition which is to.be sent out in November, is to go under coménand of Col. Molesworth of the 44th Ghurkhas, and is against a tribe known asthe Bihejivas who in May last murdered three unoffending British subjects. The place of meeting fur the expedition will be Sadya, and they will start accompanied by a survey officer as the almost inaccessible hill-fastness of this hill tribe has not yet been explored. That the task of punishing them will be an exceedingly dificult one there can be no doubt. Their villages are perched on hill tops, the only way of access them being by very steep and narrow path on the side of a precipice. The road will only allow one man to pass at a time. Their bridges are of the most primitive order, consisting of a few strands of bamboos, flung across the gorge where the river ix narrowest, the ends being fastened to rocks and trees. On the rope a ring is fastened in which the person sits and works himself slong the rope by. his hands. Iftheso bridges were guarded by a few armed hillman they would be practically impossible to cross. Fortunately, however, the Mishmis are not armed with rifles, their weapons of defence being spears and arrows poisoned with aconite and decomposing pigs' blood. They aren tribe of whom very little is known and are about one of the most uncivilized ibos in existence. In spite of all the ficulties some way to surmount them will be found. The last time we sent out avenging party. was in 1854, when the tribe had murdered a Roman Catholic Priest.
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