country, beyond the Mishmis, is well known as the country of th Lama or the Yam Sinh Raja, a nation also independent and said to be frequently engaged in hostility with Kultas, (The Geography and Population of Assam-Capt, John Bryan Neufville: Asiatic Research, Vol XVI, 1828 PP-344-345.)
"In the reign of Rajeswar, little more than half a century ago, a sudden and overwhelming flood poured from Dihong inundating the whole country, and sweeping away with a resistless torrent, whole villages and even districts; such is described to be its violence, that the general features of the country and the course of the river, were materially altered hy it. This flood continued for about 15 days during which time various agricultural and household implements, elephant-trappings and numerous articles belonging to a race, evidently social and civilized, of pastoral and agricultural habits, were washed down in the stream. (Ibid: pp. 335-336)
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"Tradition also holds that the Kolitas were a power- ful people, who ruled a part of the country at the foot of the Himalayan mountains; and this lay beyond the country of the one-legged and the winnow-eared (Kulā- Kaniya) peoples...... Even now one comes across and old Assamese very occasionally who believes in the exis- tence of such a kingdom, and thinks that some day the Kalita-raja will rule over the whole of Kamarupa. It is
