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With the Lushai Expedition: signalling party with the heliograph, 1890. Creator: R. Taylor.

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With the Lushai Expedition: signalling party with the heliograph, 1890. 'The different nations and tribes of wild mountaineers inhabiting the highlands between Chittagong...and the western frontier of Upper Burmah, are of race nearly allied. The Lushais, Shendus, and Kukis have often given much trouble to the Bengal Government; and the Chins persist in their marauding raids, eastward, into the territories under British protection in Burmah, as far as the Chindwin, a river tributary to the Irrawaddy. Expeditions to chastise both these hostile nations were employed in brief campaigns a twelvemonth ago, but the effect has proved temporary and inadequate; and larger military forces are now engaged in similar service. The Lushai Expedition has gone up into the hills from Demagiri, an intrenched camp formed last year up the Kurnafuli River, above Chittagong. Our correspondent, Lieutenant H. W. G. Cole, of the 2nd Battalion Prince of Wales's Own Goorkhas, sends us Sketches made by him representing baggage coolies on the mountain path carrying loads of rice on their heads, the encampment on the river bank at Outan Chitra, and a signalling party in communication with Fort Lungleh by means of the heliograph'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

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