The Kacharis

IT is with some diffidence that I comply with Colonel Gurdon's request that I should add a few words of preface and explanation to the last literary work of an old friend and pastor, whose loss will long be lamented in the Assam Valley, where he laboured as a missionary and planter's chaplain for upwards of forty years. Mr. Endle's interest in his Kachari flock was that of an evangelist rather than that of a linguist or ethnologist, and this preoccupation has colored his style and affected ...