A History of Assam c13.91

c13.91

† The intercourse seems to have been of a one-sided character; and although he sent envoys to other kings, he did not apparently encourage them to return the compliment. In this respect the Ahoms appear to have conformed to the Tibetan ideas regarding foreign relations. Lord Cornwallis, in the minute which he wrote prior to Captain Welsh's expedition to Assam, said:—" However extraordinary it may appear to people in Europe, we are under the necessity of admitting that, owing to the unremitting jealousy which the chiefs of those countries have hitherto shown of the English, we know little more of the interior parts of Nepal and Assam than of the interior parts of China."