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MISHMI

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 579 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL

MISHMI , a hill-tribe on the frontier of Eastern

Bengal

BENGAL
BENGAL, BAY OF

and

Assam

ASSAM

. The Mishmis occupy the hills from the Dihong to the Brahmakund, in the

north

-eastern corner of the

Brahmaputra

BRAHMAPUTRA

valley. In 1854 M. Krick and M. Bourry, two

French

FRENCH
CHESTER
- CHESTER
- CHESTER, EARLS OF
_1850_.html">FRENCH, DANIEL
CHESTER
- CHESTER
- CHESTER, EARLS OF
(1850– )
FRENCH,
NICHOLAS
(1604-1678)

missionaries, were murdered in the Mishmi

country

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

, but their death was avenged by a small expedition which took the murderer prisoner. In 1899 another

British

BRITISH

expedition was sent against the Mishmis, owing to the

murder

MURDER

of some

British

BRITISH

subjects.

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