. In farthest Burma : the record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet. ully to cross,the opposite ascent being exceptionally difficult. Thenfollowed the long descent to the Namre rame, whichvalley may be considered, for this part of the world,thickly populated. After crossing the stream by a cane suspensionbridge we again ascended steeply, and passed throughtwo small villages before halting at a larger onenear the summit of the spur. Just across the valley,which was open, with cultivated slopes, on the leftbank of the strea
. In farthest Burma : the record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet. ully to cross,the opposite ascent being exceptionally difficult. Thenfollowed the long descent to the Namre rame, whichvalley may be considered, for this part of the world,thickly populated. After crossing the stream by a cane suspensionbridge we again ascended steeply, and passed throughtwo small villages before halting at a larger onenear the summit of the spur. Just across the valley,which was open, with cultivated slopes, on the leftbank of the stream, two more villages were visible,and there were others higher up the valley out ofview. Five villages in view at once, say forty or fiftyhuts with perhaps four or five hundred people! Wehad seen nothing like it since leaving the Mekh! When we arrived at the Namre rame we foundbetween thirty and forty villagers, men, women andchildren, engaged in a fish drive. This operationconsists in damming and diverting the torrent andsecuring any fish unlucky enough to be left behindin the pools and channels below, which are graduallyhalf o o^ - g o *2£ AMONG THE LISUS 185 Here, just above its junction with the Nmai hka,the Namre rame is a boisterous torrent, tearingamongst huge blocks of granite. At one point,where the water poured over a boulder into a deeppool, a dam had been built across the stream andthe water confined to a single lateral channel, thecrevices through which it might find its way beneathand between the boulders having been plugged withbanana stems and a pulp made from the sheaths ofsago palm leaves. Thus for fifty yards or so down-stream there wereonly a few trickles and quiet pools of water lostamongst a wilderness of enormous boulders, glisteningwhite in the sunshine. It was difficult work scrambling about here in thetorrent bed where the tumbling water had worndeep chasms and polished the sheer-sided boulders. Sitting or lying full length on these slabs, o
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