All their market products, supplies, etc., were packed up and down these hills in thoppas, a sort of baskets or chairs slung on the back by a band over the forehead.

In this way even a heavy man would be carried up the steep mountain-side, and generally by a woman.
Once, in later years, whilst in Mexico, near Crizaba, I was intensely surprised to meet in the forest a string of Indios going to market and using this identical thoppa; the similar cut of the hair across the forehead, the blanket and dress, the physical features, even the peculiar grunt emitted when carrying a weight, settled for me the long-disputed question of the origin of the Aztecs.

In Venezuela I saw exactly the same type in Castro's Indian troops, as also in the Indian natives of Peru.
[Illustration: NAGAS] The Kassias were fond of games, such as tossing the caber, putting the weight and throwing the hammer, apparently a tribal institution.

The Kookies and Nagas were restless, warlike and troublesome, and addicted to head hunting.

They periodically raided some tea-gardens to secure lead for bullets, and incidentally heads as trophies.