The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

published - Appendices. 'Detailed Report on the Naga Hills Expedition of 1878-80', Capt. P.J. Maitland

caption:

routes in the Naga Hills district

medium:

reports

location:

Kohima Nerhema (Nerhama) Jessama Therugunyu (Themsketsama) Insinyu (Iusuma) Wokha (Woka)

production:

person:	Maitland/ Capt. P.J.
date:	1880

acquirer:

person:	India Office Library, London
refnum:	IOR L/MIL/17/18/24

text:

(18) From Kohima to Woka.

text:

The detail of this route is as follows:-

text:

KOHIMA TO-
_1.__Nerhama____...____...16_miles.__Camp_on_terrace;_cultivation
__________________________south_of_village;_water_scarce;_height
__________________________at_camp_4,600_feet;_three_miles_from
__________________________Jessama_path_rejoins_the_"political_"
__________________________road,_which_was_deviated_from_at
__________________________Sachima;_road_for_first_half_of_march
__________________________bad,_second_half_good.
_2.__Themsketsama______...10_miles.__Camp_100_feet_below_village;
__________________________height_4,790_feet;_water_from_streams;
__________________________small_quantities_of_rice_procurable.
_3.__Iusuma_____...____...11__miles.__Camp__near__village;__4,000
__________________________feet;_small_quantities_of_rice
__________________________procurable;__road,__a__good_Naga__path,
__________________________which_runs_along_a_ridge;_water_from
__________________________streams.
_4.__Woka_______...____...13__miles.__A_stockade__occupied__by__a
__________________________detachment_Eastern_Frontier_Brigade;
__________________________height_at_camp_4,500_feet;_supplies
__________________________brought_from_Golaghat;_a_little_rice_in
__________________________village,_which_is_situated_a_mile_to
__________________________north-west;_water_abundant;_country
__________________________open.
Total distance from Kohima 50 miles.

text:

The above is from a report by Lieutenant ( now Captain) MacGregor, 44th Sylhet Light Infantry, dated March 1878. See also Nos. 785 and 786 in Routes in the Bengal Presidency.

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