field diary 1832 deciphering problems

[JanSeifert]

30.2

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might have succeeded for before they
               [??]  which
had a chance of success ^ we had full
400 musquets beyond their reach* &
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[JanSeifert]

30.m1

»
I afterwards
heard Neela Sing
the head of our [guid?]
department & who
had been preparing
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misspelling?

[JanSeifert]

30.m2

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us. But I thought
at the moment that
their [??] intention
was to get the rear
guard to move
on before them
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[JanSeifert]

35.1

»
Only but for this village, the
road between comparatively civi-
lized countries would be open
- viz.  Assam & Munipoore & 1000:s
of [either?] & the intermediate countries
would be employed in the peaceful
interchange of commodities the
produce of their different climates;
instead of traffic however these
[??] prefer rapine & [loot]
upon Assam as their legal
field of plunder & their chace [sic]
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[JanSeifert]

37.1

»
found it quite impracticable for
our [??] & 3 Elephants, just as
we came to the place where the line
halted my poor little Pony after
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[JanSeifert]

37.2

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best we had. [Three?] minutes after
I met the advanced people returning
in despair of getting on by the road
& this short interval would have
saved the poor beast. The others
which we had got down [were?]  only
again got up by main force
& the personal exertions of our
young Rajah & his chief men.
The poor guide when threatened
with instant death, said that
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[JanSeifert]

37.m1

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This I belive is chiefly
used by the Nagas for
making their spirit
or beer of, but it was
roasted by some of our
people & made a good
[chutenee?]. Of other
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[JanSeifert]

38.1

»
he had been hailed by the people
of the hill this morning who told
him that if he took us by the centre
& best road, they would kill his
mother & himself if ever he returned
– on this their women & children
had taken refuge, & on it their
yams & [cuchoos?] are planted. The
poor devil naturally took us by the
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[JanSeifert]

39.1

»
please both parties – he has [??]
great promises from us & the Jaut
Rajah yesterday gave him a necklace
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abbreviated »received« ?