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The History of the Siyin Tribe by Carey and

Tuck (1896)

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Generations later was destroyed by the Siyins when attacked by General Faunce in 1889. Fourgenerations ago Koset emigrants founded Tannwe village.

Three generations ago some Koset people migrated to the eastern slopes of the Letha range andsettled, with the Kale Sawbwas permission, west of Nansoungpu in a village called Mwelnwum ;the Siyins, however, took to cattle-lifting, the Bwemans destroyed the village and the emigrantsreturned to Koset. In 1884, in Kuppows time, Hangswum of Koset migrated to the east of the Letharange and founded Maunglyin village, and at the same time Vumtang built Pimpi and Laihan.

When Toklaings grandson Sumsel was Chief of Vumyang, he moved the village bodily andfounded the village of Mwiton: this is the name of the present village commonly called Toklaing bythe Chins as well as by us, the family name being used in preference to that of the village. In 1882 asmall Toklaing settlement was built at Biale.

The Bweman clan sprang into existence when Kimlai, son of Toklaing, moved from Vumyang witha following and founded the village of Bun-man, which has been corrupted into Bweman by thenatives. On account of smallpox Do Lyin in 1885 moved from Bweman to Tartan and founded avillage of that name.

The Limkais remained in Vamloks original village until the present Chiefs grandfather Lanmangstime, when an acute quarrel occurred over the right to work certain lands between the Limkais andBwemans, which resulted in the Limkais abandoning their village and rebuilding a new one on thepresent site, south of the Nattan stream.

The village is known as Limkai or Sagyilain a corruption of Satkyi and lain. Satkyilain wasthe name of the particular piece of jungle in which the Limkais built their new village. WhenGeneral Faunce and Major Raikes conquered the Northern Hills they found the following villages inthe Siyin country: -

Koset, inhabited by the Twantak family.Toklaing, inhabited by the Toklaing family.Sagyilain, inhabited by the Limkai family.Bweman, inhabited by the Kimlai family.

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Besides these villages there was one called Twiyan near the site of our No. 3 Stockade, inhabited bythe last remnant of the Vaipe tribe. After their village was destroyed the inhabitants no longerlingered, but migrated north and over our borders, where they rejoined their tribesmen, who hadlong before moved north out of the Siyin and Sokte country.

General Faunce and Major Raikes destroyed every village in the Siyin tract. During the next twoyears the tribe surrendered and settled down as follows.

________________________________________________________________________________The village which General Faunce attacked was not the actual village founded by Lamtang; this

village was destroyed by the Tashons; the village-site, however, was the same and the people whoinhabited the village in 1889 were the descendants of Lamtang.

Bun means earth or clay, man means adhesive; hence clay.Also called Taitan.Satkyi is the Siyin for barking deer and lain means thorn and the

whole implies a patch of thorny bushes in which barking deer were formerly abundant.With settlements at Pimpi, Laihan, Tannwe, and Maunglyia.With settlement at Biale.With settlement at Tartan.

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