On their return the whole village would gather round the captured heads and there would be feasting with the chanting of songs of triumph. From time to time they would rally from the mountains recess to attack villages in the plains, murdering, plundering and burning down everything before swiftly retreating to the jungle, leaving behind only the headless corpses of men and women. The Garos during medieval period earned notoriety because of the numerous raids they periodically made into the plains at the foot of the hills in the district of Goalpara and Mymensing.
According to their legend, the ancestors of Garo inhabited a province of Tibet named Torus, where without any apparent reason they started on a voyage of discovery under the leadership of two chiefs Jappa-Jalima and Sukpa-Bongipa. The Garos have a strong tradition that they have come from Tibet.
As such they are the dominant tribe and inhabit the greater parts of the present Ampati Civil Sub-Division.
