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MISHMIS (ASSAM).

Their cultivation is of the rudest kind, and consists mostly of inferior grains.

The nature of their religion and the amount of the population have not as yet been ascertained with anything like accuracy. Marriage ceremony there is little. They keep four or five wives, and when a man dies or grows old his wives are distributed among his sons; each one being given to a son by another mother.