. In farthest Burma : the record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet. %J\7f77=-~1». Yawyin Children and Imaw Bum in June. The boy on the left is wearing the rattan cane rings below the knee, affected by all thefrontier tribes. Imaw Bum is 13,370 feet high. It was first climbed by the author following the high spuron the right subsequently from the rear by following up the valley on the left. ASCENT OF A VIRGIN PEAK 89 bamboo which faced us at the start; but the ridgesoon became more open. Here scattered throughthe bamboo g
. In farthest Burma : the record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet. %J\7f77=-~1». Yawyin Children and Imaw Bum in June. The boy on the left is wearing the rattan cane rings below the knee, affected by all thefrontier tribes. Imaw Bum is 13,370 feet high. It was first climbed by the author following the high spuron the right subsequently from the rear by following up the valley on the left. ASCENT OF A VIRGIN PEAK 89 bamboo which faced us at the start; but the ridgesoon became more open. Here scattered throughthe bamboo growth were the last outposts of thesilver firs, stunted and ragged, their clipped branchesall pointing in one direction like finger-posts of ex-ceptional unanimity and tedious persistence. In theshade grew livid green orchids and a beautifulNomocharis, both white-flowered and rose; here andthere a break in the bamboo growth revealed opengrassy glades, likewise dappled with flowers. Soon the big rhododendrons in turn died out, andwe were wading through unresisting bamboo grasslittle more than waist-high, clear to the screesbeyond. The ascent was stea
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