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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fade away into plains. Each day our order of march was the same. Wegot up at five, while it was still quite dark, with wetmists lying in the valley and brilliant starlight over-head ; had breakfast at six, and started at half-pastseven. After four hours on the road we would haltby a village or at some wayside stream for lunch;then, pursuing our way till about three in the after-noon, reach another village, thus completing the daysallotted stage. On the 13th, passing through Bumpat and otherMaru villages, we camped in an abandoned taungya,which was lying fallow, where wastrel plants of cottonand Capsium, with gaudy yellow and magenta coxcombs,had sprung up amongst a wilderness of weeds. The Marus in these parts were better oif, andpossessed that hallmark of aristocratic Maru society—cowry belts. In the good old days, they said, theyhad visited the jade mines. There were tiny tea gardens in these villages. Ascultivated here, it is a slender-branched tree, fifteen toeighteen feet high.
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O T) d H * <: »« S is a BACK TO CIVILISATION 265 The method of making tea is as follows:— The leaves are rammed into a bamboo tube, whichis roasted over the fire till on again ramming down theleaves juice can be squeezed out. More leaves areadded, and the process repeated, till finally the tube isfilled with a compact mass of leaves like plug tobacco;and it is cut up in the same way, to be used as required. Such tubes of compressed tea sell for six to twelveannas, though one would imagine that by this processall virtue had been expressed from the leaves. We were able to get good-flavoured bananas here,though they were rather full of hard black seeds.Walnut-trees are found in the jungle, but the nuts areuseless for eating, the thick shell being as hard asstone. The bark is said to be used for poisoning fish,which rise to the surface when it is thrown into thestream. At Hpimaw, however, edible walnuts arefound. This is evidently another variety altogether,probably introduced from

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