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THE GAROS.
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has given general satisfaction to the Garos, and thus allayed a source of great discontent among them.

The higher ranges of the Garo hills are however still independent of the British government. But that extraordinary custom of burning human scalp with the bodies of their deceased still prevails, and is the cause of their committing frequent murders on the people of the plains.