establishing his colonies/ He had already instilled, at
the Court of Thibaw, a substantial fear.
O f the Chin who lie upon the mountains which
separate the true Burma from Aracan and Assam
there are two great divisions— the Northern and the
Southern. O f these the Southern Chin, living as they
do upon the narrowest portion of their country, are
of the least consequence. They have yielded most
to the pressure of the Burmese races on each side
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of them, and they are a sparse and disorganised people.
Their tribes lap over into the subsidiary valleys which
lie between the Irrawaddy and the main spine of the
Aracan Yoma. The Northern Chin have a wider
territory, known administratively as “ The Chin Hills.”
It consists of a much broken and contorted mass of
mountains, intersected by deep valleys, and it is utterly
devoid of plains and tablelands. The Northern Chin
have a strong tribal organisation, and time has developed
in each of their tribes a separate idiosyncrasy. The