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CHOTE, MUNTUK, AND KARUM.

　Of these tribes only a few remnants are said to exist in the hills in and around the valley of Manipur. There are no specimens of the dialects available, but they are stated to belong to the Old Kuki stock.

AUTHORITIES-

　McCULLOCH, MAJOR W.,-Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill Tribes; with a comparative Vocabulary of the Munnipore and other Languages. Selections from the Records of the Govern- ment of India (Foreign Department). No. xxvii. Calcutta, 1859, pp. 64 and f.

　DAMANT, G.H.,-Notes on the Looality and Population of the Tribes dwelling between the Brahma- putra and Ningthi Rivers. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, Vol. xii, 1880, pp. 228 and ff. Note on Chohte, Muntuk and Karum on p. 238.