The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

typescript - Tour Diary of Keith Cantlie, 1919-1920

caption:

crop failure due to rain

medium:

tours

location:

Sathazumi (Sathazuma) Sagazumi (Zegazuma)

date:

13.11.1919-16.11.1919

production:

person:	Cantlie/ Keith
date:	1919-1920
refnum:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford

text:

13th November

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To Sakhabama.

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14th Do.

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To Cheswejuma.

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15th Do.

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To Sathazuma. It poured all day and local Jeremiahs predict a fortnight's rain and a complete failure of crops which are not too good as it is, 20 to 25 loads in place of the hoped-for 30.

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16th November.

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Halted Sathazuma in pouring rain and counted Zegazuma as other Angami villages well off but not increasing in number.

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