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Updated: May 13, 2025
But he did not know that he had developed a craft and skill that would avail him in battle against the greatest of his own kind. He made the discovery one sunlit day beside the Manipur River. He was in the mud-bath, grunting and bubbling with content. It was a bath with just room enough for one.
Grimwood and his wife had lived for three years in Manipur when the maharajah abdicated, and during that time the natives had always been friendly towards them. Even the royal brothers, while quarrelling among themselves, maintained their usual friendly relations with them.
Grant thought that this was probably the case, and determined to push on with his little force, in the hope of rescuing some survivors. "The distance from Tamu to Manipur is about fifty-five miles. We started at half-past five, on the morning of the 28th. The difficulties were so great that we only moved at the rate of a mile an hour.
They found on landing that news had arrived, two days before, that a powerful army of Burmese had entered Cachar, from Manipur, and had defeated the troops of Jambhir Sing; that 4000 Burmese and Assamese had advanced from Assam into Cachar, and had begun to stockade themselves at Bickrampore, at the foot of the Bhortoka Pass; and that the third division was crossing into the district of Jyntea, immediately to the north of Sylhet.
The Maharajah of Manipur was more humane than many rulers, and although he had seven brothers, he refrained from killing any of them. For several years the brothers lived on friendly terms with each other, but eventually quarrels arose through two of them wanting to marry the same woman.
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