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Self-amputation amongst Lhotas and Aos |
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To Mokokchung. They told me on the way, or at Litami, of a Lhota of Lungithung whose left arm got injured and mortified. As his friends would not cut it off for him, he sat down with a saw edged reaping hook and cut it off at the elbow, singing as he did so. One of the first people in to see me at Mokokchung was the one-legged Ao of that village who under similar circumstances cut off his leg at the knee with his own dao. |
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Halted at Mokokchung. For two days I was laid up with troubled intestines. The other six I used to inspect the S.D.O.'s office and the ammunition shop, and in hearing a number of transfrontier disputes. Kamahu, Yacham, Yong, Yamrup, Alisopo, Phomching, and Urangkong were in from east of the Dikhu. Mongnyu ought to have been but were not. |
