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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numbers of magnificent Ficus trees, andferrying across the Ti hka, a considerable stream flowingdirect to the Mali hka, reached the last Duleng village,situated on a broad, grassy mound. Outside their long,low huts women sat on the ground weaving cloth, thewarp stretched over the toes and kept taut by a bandpassing round the waist. Others were winnowing ricewith large fans made of palm leaf, or stamping paddyin wooden mortars. We sat down on the knoll for a rest; and there justbelow us spread the broad, flat valley of the Mali hka,the plains at last, covered with palm-trees as it seemedin the mist. Here and there a low mound stuck up outof the grey-green sea, otherwise the valley spread awaylevel to the horizon. Then we plunged knee-deep into a stream, andfollowing it up for a mile, tramped through mud to thelast low pass. A gibbon leaped lightly across the path, but I scarcelynoticed him; a gay Kaleage pheasant ran into a thicket,but I would not be beguiled. We slipped and slithered
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n, , , -, \T. Hare, Esq. Photo byi ^ ., l . f » A Duleng Girl Ginning Cotton. The seeds are passed between wooden rollers, which take off the cotton hair and leave the seeds. OF LEECHES 225 down the slope, past a few paddy-fields, and quitesuddenly emerged on to the bank of a big river. It was the Mali hka! The western branch of the Irrawaddy is here, 150miles above the confluence, a fine river in full flood,about 200 yards in breadth, running swiftly butsmoothly in mid-stream. The water was a dullgreyish-brown in colour, carrying much mud, tempera-ture 69-8° F., or 66° warmer than the Nmai hka! Ferrying across in canoes, we reached the Shanvillage of Nong-hkai on the edge of the plain, about1200 feet above sea-level, and found everythingsuddenly changed—vegetation, crops, people. September 28th.—Minimum 71*3° F. A fine drizzlewas falling when we got up in the dark at four-thirtyfor the last march, hoping to arrive for ten oclockbreakfast. Starting at six in dismal weather, we

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