Word: shillong
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From the slums of Calcutta, the Pope journeyed northeast to the scenic hills of Shillong, where 19th century missionaries found ready converts among the territory's tribes. Some 100,000 people attended a Mass and, to the Pontiff's obvious delight, members of the Konyak tribe danced and brandished their daos, the flat-ended machetes that until 1967 were used by the clan to behead enemies...
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