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*[https://archive.org/details/memoriesofanafri005386mbp/page/n5 ''Memories Of An African Hunter With A Chapter On Eastern India''] by Denis D Lyell 1923 Archive.org. Missing pages 1-13. He went to a tea garden in 1894, and worked in various locations until c 1899.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromtonkintoindi00orle/page/n7 ''From Tonkin to India by the sources of the Irawadi, January '95-January '96''] by Prince Henri D’Orleans, translated by Hamley Bent. Illustrated by G Vuillier 1898. [https://archive.org/details/fromtonkintoindi00orle/page/n16 Map] Includes Upper Burma and Assam. Archive.org
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1959-indias-north-east-frontier-in-the-19th-century-by-elwin-s-pdf/ ''India’s North-East Frontier In the 19th Century''] edited by Verrier Elwin 1959. Pdf download from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download link does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1959. Also available [https://archive.org/details/indiasnortheastf0000elwi/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library]. Chapters by many different authors from the 19th century.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/wildsportsofburm00pollrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Wild sports of Burma and Assam''] By Fitz William Thomas Pollok and W. S. Thom 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/indianhomememori00cottuoft ''Indian & Home Memories''] by Sir Henry Cotton 1910. Archive.org. He spent 35 years in the Indian Civil Service - he arrived in Calcutta in 1867 and resigned in 1902. He became Chief Commissioner for Assam in 1896 (page 226) and experienced the 1897 earthquake (page 228).
