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Chepama villagers leave because of destruction of crops by elephants; hopes for a Keddah to reduce elephant population |
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TOUR DIARY FOR MONTH OF JANUARY 1921. |
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To Piphima. The Chepama Gaonbura came in and reported that seven households had deserted the village owing to the repeated destruction of their crops by elephants. The elephants in the Zubza and Bagti valleys are really becoming a very serious nuisance. There are about 200 of them, possibly many more, and they have destroyed the entire cultivations of many Lhotas and Angamis this year as they have done for several years now. I should have been able to have a Keddah this year, as Mr. Errol Grey offered to try again, though last time he tried to catch elephants in the Bagti valley he failed dismally, but the Forests obstructed it. |
