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 THE ORIGIN AND ONOW211 OTTE ASASAYA LANGUAGE apple and coconut, besides the use of outrigger and canoe and the .practice of communal houses and head-hunting (R.E.P.I.). Since the Mongoloids, whose descendants are the Bados in Asam, are credited with the first cultivation and use of betel nut, they must have made the discovery of preserving the arecanuts by gori (seasoning In mud) and also of Jakhald (bamboo-ladder) to get betel leaves from high in the trees. They must have been good fish-eaters and so they must have invented langi (fishing net), Ichoka (fish trap) and such other bamboo implements of catching fish. Not only these, they may probably be rightly suspected of having an advanced bamboo culture; for they must not only have had hengir (fencing) to protect their crops and enkod family fencing) for reserve in compounds, but they also must first have made kharihi and plei, (bamboo baskets big and small) to keep paddy and rice, must have first prepared kinerica (condiment made from tender shoots of bamboos). cungi olul (rice bolled in tender bom boo tubes) and can pll (cakes made in tender bamboo tubes) to suit various tastes. Mongoloids may possibly be held responsible for inventing bamboo instrumental musie such as taled (hell-split bamboo instrument) and gagand (fine bamboo instrument). Nor is this all. A sort of bamboo Worship is there for which cutting of bamboos on Tuesdays and Satur. days is strictly prohibited. This cult may perhaps be safely, attributed to these bamboo culturists. Mongoloids must have had first invented cding (bamboo scaffold) for a cot to lie on, and must have seensionally indulged In jirani (recreation) or even in Mimihi procrastination; but they do not seem to have been either hos simpleton) or hebding (stupid). They surely had some jong (point) in their intellect, for which they would either gaba-mar (clasp) or their mér (slap on the head) their juniors who would celur mdr (tale to heels) at their sight. It may be interesting to noten parallel event of the English language to show how history of words may both reveal and corroborate political history. Or, cow, calf, sheep, swine, bour, deur etc., are English while bel, utton, pork, Denison etc., were originally French words, which fact tells the tale that the native people, forming the subject rice and class, were in charge of those very animals which appeared on the table with tempting names of their foreign masters. So also sauce, boil, fri, roots, toasts, soup, jolley, dainty ete, belong the French masters who enjoyed life even at the cost of the natives of England. So also while the humble breakfast is English, the sumptuous dinner, supper, feasts ete, are Fronch.