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The Lushai Expedition: headquarters mess-house in Fort Langleh, 1890. The British Army in India. 'Lieutenant Leslie W. Shakespear of the 2nd Battalion Prince of Wales's Own Goorkhas, contributes the views of Fort Langleh and its neighbourhood which are now presented to our readers...The officers' quarters occupied by Brigadier Tregear, in the interior of the fort, or rather the mess-room hut of the headquarters staff, with bed-rooms on each side, are shown in another Illustration; the walls of this building are constructed of plaited split bamboo, and the roof of canes and leaves, covered with tarpaulin; the floor is raised on stout logs driven well into the earth: to the left are the kitchen and servants' lodgings...Fort Langleh was completed in April last year, and was garrisoned, during the rainy season, by three British officers with 250 frontier police...The newly made road to Haka, cut through dense jungle and forest, and crossing those hill ranges, has been a laborious work, in which some assistance was procured from certain Shendu chiefs'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.