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Legend concerning a bridge at Mapa; revenue exemption due to failed crops |
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To Bagtimukh, about 12 miles, taking Lungkhung on the way. The path goes along the river bank (and very bad going indeed) as far as Mapa, a place where there are three great rocks stuck in the river as if they were piers of a bridge, the footway of which had gone. There is a local legend that a Lhota pursued by his enemies leaped the gaps with five chungas of modhu on his back. The leap - at least the one that really mattered for a hunted man - is a possible one, I think, but I have no sort of desire to experiment. From a little below Mapa it is possible to go on down the river to Bagtimukh, but I had to go to Lungkhung, so climbed up to the village, which I counted, and down again, to find a dak and a host of Gaonburas waiting in my camp. |
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I exempted Hanyemi from revenue this year. For some mysterious reason half their crops seem to have failed entirely. Something must have gone wrong with the seed. |
