Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East . A REAL LADY OF LHE SIAMESE JUNGLE NEAR THE BURMA UNI Dressed for the express purpose of having her photograph taken by the AT THE HEAD WATERS. Disembarking from our dugout and setting out for the interior. JUNGLE HTJNTEK 257 the poot-poot bird, and the hoarse croaking of theherons in the evening. There was no sun set at six, and half an hour later it wasdark. The water was of a deep garnet color,sometimes in the larger river so deep as to bealmost black, and a mirror that reflected the p
Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East . A REAL LADY OF LHE SIAMESE JUNGLE NEAR THE BURMA UNI Dressed for the express purpose of having her photograph taken by the AT THE HEAD WATERS. Disembarking from our dugout and setting out for the interior. JUNGLE HTJNTEK 257 the poot-poot bird, and the hoarse croaking of theherons in the evening. There was no sun set at six, and half an hour later it wasdark. The water was of a deep garnet color,sometimes in the larger river so deep as to bealmost black, and a mirror that reflected the palmsand our paddles as we moved over its as we paddled along, usually at aboutthree miles an hour, we met a low native canoe, withpaddlers crouching bow and stern, using the nar-row, long-pointed blade of the Malay paddle withsilent powerful stroke; but these were few and farbetween. There was little travel on the river, andeven at the settlements were sometimes not morethan three or four, never to exceed a dozen, working our way toward the interior, nativesbecame scarcer, and after a couple of weeks disap-peared entirely. Meantime I had found Uda a source unfailingof entertainmen
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