Identifier: infarthestburmar00ward (find matches)
Title: In farthest Burma : the record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Ward, Francis Kingdon, 1885-1958
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London : Seeley, Service
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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elow the river chatters merrilyby, in a broad, shingly bed, before entering thegorge. Clapper, clapper, clack, clack went the monkeyscares, shaken by the tumbling waters of the torrent.As the full moon rose, flooding the valley in goldenlight, troops of monkeys came out of the black jungleabove, and we heard the shrill cries of the children,and the clap, clackety, clap all through the night,driving them back. The temperature fell only to 650 F., but the air wasraw after a damp night. Though the next day opened with drizzling rain,the sun quickly came through, and it was muggy inthe valley. We marched to Kang-fang in the morning, crossingseveral deep gullies filled with a confusion of shrubs,brambles and trees, strung together and oftensmothered beneath an immense tangle of climbingfern, Polygonum and Leptosodon, whose delicate fairybells of pale violet colour swung mutely on thebreeze. Gorgeous butterflies sported in the sunshine, and aplague of flies tormented us. Where there was any
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3; THE CEOSSBOW 113 cultivation it was chiefly millet and maize, with patchesof tobacco and cucumber round the villages. There is no flat ground anywhere, not so much asto pitch a tent on, save in the river bed where theshrinking waters have laid bare a pebble bank. Kang-fang stands on the left bank, the river beingcrossed by a cane suspension bridge; thenceforwardwe kept to the right bank of the Ngawchang. Kang-fang is also the last village up the valley whereChinese are met with, and a depot for storing thecoffin planks which are brought down from the foreststo be carried into China. This coffin plank industry is of some importanceon the frontier, and considering the rapidity withwhich the trees are being destroyed, it is strange thatthe Indian Government has taken no steps to regulatethe export of planks or protect the tree. Moreover, the timber might prove of value for otherpurposes besides that of making coffins, and thoughthe inaccessibility of these forests wou

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