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THIS book is intended to supply a popular 1 account of northern Assam and its borderland, the details of which are scattered through a wide and not easily accessible literature. The sword of the gallant author is mightier than his pen, and it is a subject of regret that the manuscript was not revised by someone wiTh a keener sense of style. In dealing with the more obscure questions of archæology and ethnology he does not profess to write as a specialist, and if the hook had been confined to an account of the savage tribes of the borderland and their relations with the British Government, the local experience of the author would have found ampler scope. With these reservations the book is an interesting account of a country of which, be it said to our shame, the average Englishman knows little.
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MARTIN, E. History and Ethnology of Assam 1 . Nature 94, 481–482 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094481a0
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