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Salting a Friendship. Last month the Dafias were growing restive once again over a fancied favoritism shown by the Indian government in granting military protection to their hated neighbors, the Galongs. With the British no longer on hand to practice their "atrocities," India sent a detachment of 23 Assam Riflemen into the Abor Hills to talk things over in a friendlier way. The Dafias welcomed the visitors and their 150 Galong porters with effusive cordiality and set to work clearing a wide space in the forest on which they could pitch their tents. The Indians met kindness with kindness...
...Dafias. At that, some 500 more Dafias came howling out of the forest to rush the Indian camp behind a sudden blizzard of poisoned arrows and long spears. Those inside the major's tent made short work of him and his fellows, while outside, Indian and Galong heads fell right & left. During the slaughter, three Galong porters managed to escape and carry news of the massacre to headquarters as the triumphant Dafias, holding the heads of their victims aloft, went into a wild dance of victory...
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