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At first we went through the jungle away along the right hand Dikhu bank and then crossed over at a place where now the water only goes up to one's knees |
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(181) After a while we again come immediately to the Dikhu, then it goes up hill. The bamboo growth now is replaced by a forest of tall straight trunks. Pan plants are growing up many of them. Some of these like green vines have been carefully tied especially to the trunk with bast fibres. Picking and selling pan leaves is a major source of income for the Konyak of these outer foothills. Several camps with good rest houses are set up in the jungle. Here the gatherers rest and cook their food. It is getting hotter and more humid and when finally we get to the fields of Namsang Machamkong we are glad to get some air as in the forest the atmosphere is still and oppressive. The fields which are set between bare tree giants all carefully separated seem to be the old fields. |
