Lanterna Rally

Author: Leslie Waterfield Shakespear

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781230314105

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... appendix Routes. The chief routes towards the actual north-eastern frontier from Assam are those leading up the Dihang and Dibong rivers into Thibet now being explored, and that up the Lohit from Sadiya to Walong, some thirty odd miles from Rima, and along which latter it is thought eventually to have a cart road. Further through the Hkamti Long country, or rather into it, the only known routes towards China are those used in 1885 by Colonels Woodthorpe and Macgregor from Sadiya via the Nonyong Lake and a low pass of 3,960 feet in the Patkoi range up the Loglai valley past Turong Ku, who, crossing the upper Dihing, reached Hkamti through Kumki and the Chaukan Pass; while Macgregor on another occasion explored a route across the Patkoi into the Hukong valley, and then turning north via Ntupntsa reached Hkamti. This is recorded as particularly difficult. The best line of communication between Hkamti Long and China is said by the inhabitants to run east to the Mali-kha river, thence down the right bank to a place spoken of as Marai Salar, whence the valley is crossed, and the path continues over ranges to the Nmai-kha and so into Yunnan. In 1892 Mr. Errol Gray, also starting from Sadiya, explored an easier route up the Dihing valley to Kumki over the Chaukan Pass and up to the Phangma river to the Nam Kiu valley and Hkamti, a route said to be the chief one used by the people trading between Hkamti and Assam. These people are generally on the move between November and March, the rest of the year the passes are impossible either owing to heavy rainy seasons or by being blocked by snow. Another route from Assam to Hkamti Long as yet untravelled by Europeans, and described only by the people, lies up the Lohit for ten days where the Ghalang...